27 December 2014

Coming Home (China, 2014)

Lu Yanshi and Feng Wanyu are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner, just as his wife is injured in an accident. Released during the last days of the Cultural Revolution, he finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife has amnesia and remembers little of her past. Unable to recognize Lu, she patiently waits for her husband's return. A stranger alone in the heart of his broken family, Lu Yanshi determines to resurrect their past together and reawaken his wife's memory.

Coming Home is the ninth collaboration between director Yimou Zhang and actor Gong Li. Some of their work includes Raise the Red Lantern (1991), To Live (1994) and Red Sorghum (1987), and Coming Home follows the tradition of being a well-played emotional drama. It's actually quite heartbreaking and you desperately wish for a happy ending.   

Genre: Drama

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