[The film is] ... an invitation to dance - not to forget that governing question, but to sublimate it into movement, as if to make one's body feel what one would ask of it.

| Jun 5, 2021

It becomes clear that Schanelec is commenting on both the contradictory nature of life itself and the duality of man, with the film as a whole serving as the ultimate example.

| Jun 4, 2021

A splendid Maren Eggert. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 9, 2020

Schanelec shines by inserting expressive details, minimal in appearance in its planes. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 7, 2020

[Reaches] a multiplicity of possible interpretations. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 31, 2020

...a puzzle piece that is never solvable. We have opaque characters with Bresson-style delivery. We instead concentrate on gestures...we play around in our heads long after we leave the theater to make sense of it...

| Jul 17, 2020

A tender, profoundly moving portrait of grief and family, art and motherhood, the film is a formalist achievement that feels like a movement of true growth for Schanelec

| May 13, 2020

I Was at Home, But tests its audience and never tells them if they're right, and therein lies the challenge. The point is not to "get" the film but to have thought about it and come up with a whole array of personal truths.

| Mar 6, 2020

Too much of this stilted installation piece is like a Jeff Wall photograph come to life, delivering details that mostly prove to be less interesting than what your imagination would have supplied.

| Mar 5, 2020

It's fair to wonder what this film has in store. The answer in writer/director Angela Schanetec's tenth feature is an imaginative, disjointed story of love and loss.

| Mar 5, 2020

This is unbearably good cinema.

| Feb 27, 2020

There's no denying the boldness of [I Was at Home, But...]-fractured, elliptical, and highly mannered, the film hardly betrays Schanelec's ideology.

| Feb 19, 2020

Every element -- camera placement, music, blocking, sound design -- is so deliberate that it pulls you into its vortex, and it makes you submit to its severe rhythms.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 14, 2020

Schanelec creates a subdued, cryptic domestic drama-one denuded of the histrionics typically associated with the genre but one that nevertheless gives a real sense, if only in glimpses, of the burdens and joys of this Schöneberg household.

| Feb 14, 2020

Despite its austere, theory-heavy minimalism, I Was At Home, But... is lopsided and lumpy, filled with longueurs in which the brain begins to check out.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 13, 2020

In most mainstream cinema, the story tugs you along - or prods you into its mazelike corridors and toward dead ends - encouraging you to wonder what happens next. Schanelec offers next to no such prompts, trusting that you'll keep watching anyway.

| Feb 13, 2020

A classroom production of "Hamlet" and an outburst of domestic rage are equally blank, arbitrary, and undeveloped.

| Feb 10, 2020

It may not offer much in the way of entertainment, but this is ultimately a film that deserves to be watched, re-watched, and pondered - slowly.

| Oct 30, 2019

The film of the German filmmaker has the dispersion populating the story with small great moments that might seem unexpected, but somehow are not flighty. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 26, 2019

Despite the sluggish pace and severely cryptic approach, I greatly appreciated Schanelec's calm and patient hand at guiding I Was at Home, But to a place of mood and mystifying depth.

| Sep 27, 2019