Sunflower

Name: Sunflower
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: August 17, 2007
Rating: 64

2007

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New Yorker Films | Release Date: August 17, 2007

Summary: When Xiangyang's father, Gengnian, gets out of prison, he is determined teach his child to live a virtuous lifestyle. But his overbearing rules drive a wedge between him and his son that will last a lifetime.

Director: Yang Zhang

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

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Jason Anderson

Sunflower succeeds as both a moving family drama and a microcosm of China's social history since the 1970s. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Like Douglas Sirk without the throw pillows, Sunflower is a shamelessly old-fashioned melodrama performed with such sincerity that resistance is futile. Read full review

Derek Elley

With a commanding performance by Sun Haiying as the unbending, ornery father, and a glammed-down Joan Chen remarkable as the boy's devoted mom, pic serves up solid dramatic values instead of being yet another panorama of social and political changes in China during the late 20th century. Read full review

Julia Wallace

As father and son argue and reunite every few minutes, accompanied by veeery slow violin music, Sunflower plays less like the epic it aspires to be than an episode of "Full House: Beijing." Read full review

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schwarz_kellogg

Mar 11, 2012

Good theme, good pace/plot, favoring color tone. LIKELIKELIKE.

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JohnN.

Sep 18, 2007

A willful and domineering man imposes his opinions of what is right on his wife and son making their lives miserable. Only in his lonely old age does he realize what a bad husband and father he had been and that he never expressed his love to them. A beautifully made film that made me angry A willful and domineering man imposes his opinions of what is right on his wife and son making their lives miserable. Only in his lonely old age does he realize what a bad husband and father he had been and that he never expressed his love to them. A beautifully made film that made me angry and sad. Zhang Yue is very special.… Expand

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