“A Story of Caregiving Challenges Balances Dark Truths With Charm and Humor”
- Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter
Take Me Home strikes a delicate balance between humor and heartbreak.”
- Wilson Chapman, IndieWire
- Wilson Chapman, IndieWire
“...suffused with love: the director’s love for her own sibling, who stars in the film, but also the tenacious and so often under-appreciated love of caregiving.”
- Lisa Kennedy, Variety
“For much of Liz Sargent’s “Take Me Home,” a modest, immersive story about marginalization and grief, one is captivated by its quiet approach.”
- Robert Daniels, Robert Ebert
"In her first scene, Anna refuses a shower with the stubborn authority of someone who knows exactly who she is. From that moment, it is clear that she is a force of nature and that the film is hers."
- Tracey Anne Duncan, HuffPost
FEATURE FILM PRESS
VARIETY | ‘Take Me Home’ Review: Sundance Award-Winner Paints an Intimate Portrait of a Family in Crisis
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | ‘Take Me Home’ Review: A Story of Caregiving Challenges Balances Dark Truths With Charm and Humor
INDIE WIRE | Sundance’s ‘Take Me Home’ Turned a Personal Story Into an Anti-Ableist Creative Undertaking
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL | Give Me the Backstory: Get to Know Liz Sargent, the Writer-Director of “Take Me Home”
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER I ‘Take Me Home’ to Be Adapted into Full-Length Feature Film
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER I A New Kind of Disability Film
SHORT FILM PRESS
SHORT OF THE WEEK I Review
MOVEABLE FEST I Sundance 2023 Interview: Liz Sargent on Learning to Let Go as a Form of Care in “Take Me Home”
RESPECTABILITY Short Film “Take Me Home” Captures Empathy During Mourning
MINOS PAPAS ON THE CINEMATOGRAPHY I Kinefinity
SUNSHINE STATE CINEPLEX | Alan French l Sundance 2023 – Shorts: ‘Take Me Home’ is a Unique Depiction of Sisterhood
UNSEEN FILMS | Steve Kopian l TAKE ME HOME (2023) Sundance 2023
THE UTAH REVIEW | Les Roka l Sundance 2023: Previewing eclectic sampling of documentaries, fiction, Sundance Kids, short film offerings
NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM l In Conversation with Writer/Director Liz Sargent
ORLANDO SENTINEL l Matthew Palm l Filmmaker gives sister a chance to shine: ‘I knew she could do it’
NO FILM SCHOOL | Jo Light l The Best Advice from This Year's Sundance Filmmakers