The Road Home
13,349
Romance. Drama
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 ... [+]
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"Celebrates a beauty and heroism around us that we often miss in both our movies and our lives." | ||||
"A beautifully textured, disarmingly simple movie about romantic devotion." | ||||
"A gentle, engaging narrative of constancy and devotion against all odds, both natural and bureaucratic" | ||||
"A beautifully simple romantic fable set in 1958 China in which the lovers are never seen touching, much less kissing -- yet it can move you to tears." | ||||
"The director finds poetry in the face of his lead actress, whose performance is as luminous and moving as the film itself." |
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