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Mood:
- AtmosphericEmotionalSentimentalStylizedCaptivating
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Plot:
- Young LoversFall in LoveTrue LoveWooingLovers ReunitedVillage LifeLove and RomanceYouth more...
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Genres:
- DramaRomanceForeignMelodramaPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century50s
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Place:
- AsiaChinaVillageWilderness
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Praise:
- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedBerlin Festival WinnerPrestigious AwardsSundance Festival Winner
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Style:
- Voice Over
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Look:
- Partly B&W
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The Road Home, 2000
Mandarin
China
Profile of The Road Home
The mood of The Road Home is emotional, atmospheric, and stylized. The plot centers around lovers reunited, village life, and true love. It is a drama, foreign, and romance movie. Stylistically, The Road Home includes a voice over and is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. The Road Home takes place, at least partly, in a village and in the wilderness. The setting is China. It happens in the 1950s. Visually, The Road Home is partly black and white. It is based on a book. The movie is known for being a Sundance Festival winner, a Berlin festival winner, and critically acclaimed.
Summary of The Road Home
A man returns to the village where he was raised to help his mother arrange his father's funeral in this romantic drama about the courtship of his parents and the value of tradition and devotion. Upon his return to the village of Sanheutun, Luo Yusheng (Sun Honglei) finds his aging mother seized with grief over the death of her husband. She insists that her son help her arrange a traditional funeral for his father in which the villagers carry his casket by foot many miles from the hospital back to the village. In an attempt to assess the importance of his mother's wishes, Luo contemplates his parents's marriage. The grainy black and white footage of Luo's China bursts into vibrant color as the story of the courtship of Luo's parents unfolds in a flashback. Zhao Di, (Zhang Ziyi), the most beautiful girl in the village, falls in love at first sight with Changyu (Zheng Hao), a primary-schoolteacher. As their feelings for each other deepen so does the symbolism of the only road that leads from the village to the city.
Details
| Language: | Mandarin |
| Country: | China |
| Release date: | January 2001 |
| Runtime: | 89 min |
Cast and Crew
as Zhao Di, Young
as Luo Yusheng
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Critics Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
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- by: Edward Guthmann
Entertainment Weekly
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- by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
