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Name: Coming Home
Released: 2015-9-9
Cast: Gong Li, Chen Daoming, Huiwen Zhang

Coming Home

PG-13
1h 49m
2015

89%

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Lu (Chen Daoming) and Feng (Gong Li) 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. When Lu is released years later, he returns home to find his beloved wife has amnesia and remembers little of her past. Unable to recognize him, she still patiently awaits her husband's return. A stranger within his own family, Lu is determined to awaken his wife's memory through gentle displays of unconditional and eternal love.

Cast:

Gong Li, Chen Daoming, Huiwen Zhang

FEATURES

Locked video

Toronto Film Festival Q&A with Zhang Yimou

18 MIN

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

89%

Critics Consensus: The rare tearjerking melodrama with sociopolitical subtext, Coming Home plucks the heartstrings with thought-provoking power.

Reviews

A Sala Llena (Argentina)

Denise Pieniazek

In a China going through the Cultural Revolution, the love story between Feng and Lu takes place. Its director, Zhang Yimou, here the central theme is more earthly: the reunion between two people who love each other.

January 14, 2024

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World Socialist Web Site

David Walsh

A small, sincere film about big, complex times...

With the treatises of separation, sacrifice, reminiscences and compassion, this film is itself very difficult to forget. [Full review in Spanish]

August 26, 2023

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Battleship Pretension

Josh Long

Yet another example of how Zhang Yimou is one of the best filmmakers working right now.

Though Yimou somehow manages to tie this barren package up into a final moment of poetic melancholy, one can't help but feel it's a far cry from the incredibly moving heights of past works.

July 10, 2019

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