The Road Home
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Universal acclaim- based on 22 Ratings
- Starring: Honglei Sun, Ziyi Zhang
- Summary: 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)
- Director: Yimou Zhang
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance
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Positive: 20 out of 25
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Mixed: 4 out of 25
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Negative: 1 out of 25
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100A great love story and a deeply moving celebration of simple lives.
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80The flutes soar a little too often, but Yimou's film is genuinely moving.
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60A nostalgic paean to China's fading pastoral ways, might easily be taken for an audition tape for Zhang Ziyi.
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30By all current standards it's a startlingly ingenuous film.
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Positive: 12 out of 15
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Mixed: 2 out of 15
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Negative: 1 out of 15
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