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Road Home, The
Sony Pictures Classics
FILM:
MPAA RATING: G for General Audiences
Starring
Ziyi Zhang,
Honglei Sun,
Hao Zheng,
Yuelin Zhao,
Bin Li,
Guifa Chang,
and
Wencheng Sung
The story of a Chinese man who works in the city, far from the village where he was born. When his father dies he comes home for the funeral and spends three days with his mother, thinking back to the period in which his parents met and fell in love. (Sony Pictures Classics)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Shi Bao (also novel Remembrance)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Yimou Zhang
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 27, 2001
Video: November 27, 2001
Theatrical: May 25, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
89 minutes, Color / BW |
| ORIGIN: |
China |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Mandarin with English subtitles |
Original Chinese title "Wo De Fu Qin Mu Qin"

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100
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A great love story and a deeply moving celebration of simple lives.
91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Shines with the kind of honesty that's very scarce in today's ultra-manipulative cinema.

90
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A gorgeous film with a vision strong enough to sustain heart-tugging, heightened by San Bao's romantic score, that verges on the sentimental.

90
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The result is an enchanting story of love from an idealized past that endures in the mundane present.
90
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A beautifully textured, disarmingly simple movie about romantic devotion.

88
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
It's the rare film that trusts both its audience's intelligence and its emotions.
88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
The Road Home takes a path few movies choose to travel these days, but it's a very affecting journey.
83
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
This is a gentle, engaging narrative of constancy and devotion against all odds, both natural and bureaucratic, in which the past represents enduring family values and customs.

80
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
A cinematic ballad of such seamless construction and exquisite tonal balance it transcends most of the pitfalls of movies that aspire to a classic, lyric simplicity.

80
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The director finds poetry in the face of his lead actress, whose performance is as luminous and moving as the film itself.

80
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
The flutes soar a little too often, but Yimou's film is genuinely moving.
78
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
Abundant arthouse crowd appeal.

75
USA Today
Mike Clark
It's a sweet tale, but the movie's real subject is Zhang, the camera's muse that the lens adores.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
It's a simple story, reminiscent of the Iranian film "The Wind Will Carry Us."

75
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
With so many cynical Hollywood romances cluttering theaters, Zhang Yimou's unabashed simplicity is most welcome.

75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
As luminous as the star presence at its center. It's at once a touching teacher movie and an even more touching love story.
75
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
The lyrical The Road Home is less political and less flashy than some previous films by Zhang Yimou.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Has a graceful simplicity that many will find hard to resist.

70
TV Guide
Ken Fox
The result is an interesting, if slightly unbalanced, hybrid: a social problem film with the warm heart of a deeply felt love story.

70
Variety
Derek Elley
Takes the simplest of stories and weaves a seductive, extremely moving portrait of a young woman’s unshakable love.

60
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
A nostalgic paean to China's fading pastoral ways, might easily be taken for an audition tape for Zhang Ziyi.

50
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
Predictable, not so much from his (Zhang Yimou) previous movies as from the work of the many sentimentalists who have already plowed this well-tilled turf.

40
New Times (L.A.)
Andy Klein
Sad to say, the story is simply too slight to sustain the film.

40
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
The Road Home is foremost enthralled, however, with its lead actress -- wide-eyed and pigtailed, revered in close-up after stunned close-up.

30
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
By all current standards it's a startlingly ingenuous film.


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