Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers travel back to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the world's largest human migration, an epic spectacle that exposes a nation tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. Working over several years in classic cinéma vérité style, director Lixin Fan travelled with one couple who have embarked on this annual trek for almost two decades.
Last Train Home is a documentary that depicts one family's struggles and hardships and observes them as they try to unite for the holidays. New York Times picked Last Train Home as one of the most outstanding works from the 2010 Sundance by characterizing it as "a beautifully shot, haunting and haunted large scale portrait." The director, Lixin Fan, has a way of making you feel like a 'fly on the wall', like you're always there in the background, always hearing the conflicts, the fights and discussions about the future. A very personal and amazing film.
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