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  • 2016

Coming home

Yimou Zhang, Li Gong, (1965-), Daoming Chen, Huiwen Zhang, (1989-), Geling Yan

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"Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him"--from www.imdb.com.

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Review by HANS STRAUB

HANS STRAUB

Without going into the full plot, Coming Home is one of filmmaker Zhang Yinou’s best collaborations with Gong Li – considered by some the best female actress of her generation. Gong Li is the wife of a professor imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution and, as such, represents countless individuals traumatized by injustice and forgotten in post-revolutionary times. As such, this is a vignette in a much broader historic tragedy that China has officially repressed.

Recommended for Sinophiles and those wanting to understand the prelude to what we see of China today. Psychologically complex, full of pathos, with an ironic, unexpected twist at the end. A two-handkerchief movie you will enjoy and learn from.

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Title Statement Coming home [DVD] / Le Vision Pictures Co., Ltd. ; produced by Jia Yueting, Jerry Ye, Bill Kong [and two others] ; directed by Zhang Yimou ; screenplay by Zou Jingzhi.
Additional Contributors Zhang, Yimou
Gong, Li,1965-
Chen, Daoming
Zhang, Huiwen,1989-
Yan, Geling
Publication Culver City, California: Sony Pictures Classics,[2016]©2016
Extent of Item 1 videodisc (approximately 109 min.)
ISBN (v.r.)
Standard Number (UPC, etc.) 043396464117
Other Number 3080501
General Notes DVD.
Disc label title.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2014.
Based on the novel by Yan Geling.
Widescreen version.
Performance Credits Li Gong, Daoming Chen, Huiwen Zhang, Tao Guo, Ni Yan.
Audience & Ratings MPAA rating: PG-13.
Languages Mandarin, Portuguese, and Spanish language tracks with English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish subtitles.SDH (Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing)English audio description track.
System Details DVD, Dolby digital 5.1.
Terms of Use For home use only.
Summary "Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him"--from www.imdb.com.
Subjects & Genres
By Topic Political prisoners--Fiction--China
Couples--Fiction
Amnesia--Fiction
Motion pictures, Chinese
Foreign films
By Genre Feature films
Films for the hearing impaired
Films for people with visual disabilities
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