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The Road Home (Wo de fu qin mu qin) (2000)

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89

Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 80
Fresh: 71 | Rotten: 9

Beautifully filmed, The Road Home is a simple touching and tender love story.

91

Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 2

Beautifully filmed, The Road Home is a simple touching and tender love story.

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Average Rating: 4.1/5
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Following on the heels of director Zhang Yimou's Not One Less (1999), which won the top prize at the 1999 Venice Film Festival, comes this sensitively-wrought portrait of a young woman's unshakable love. The film opens in the present, shot in gritty black and white, as businessman Luo Yusheng (Sun Honglei) returns to his hometown in the rural Hebei province to attend the funeral of his father. When Luo suggests that the coffin should be brought home from the hospital on a tractor, his aging

G, 1 hr. 29 min.

Drama, Romance, Art House & International

Bao Shi

Nov 27, 2001

$0.4M

Sony Picture Classics

All Critics (90) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (71) | Rotten (9) | DVD (8)

If this film's coda doesn't move you to tears, you'd better make an appointment with your cardiologist.

August 24, 2001 Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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A layered, delicately but surely romantic tribute to the simplicity and grace of a bygone era.

August 20, 2001 Full Review Source: Detroit News | Comment
Detroit News
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Celebrates a beauty and heroism around us that we often miss in both our movies and our lives.

July 19, 2001 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Chicago Tribune
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Zhang Yimou focuses so frequently on Ziyi's face in extreme close-up that she sticks like a daguerreotype to your retina -- and then your heart.

July 19, 2001 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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It has the ability to break your heart.

July 16, 2001 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | Comment
Sacramento Bee
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A gentle, engaging narrative of constancy and devotion against all odds.

June 28, 2001 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
Entertainment Weekly
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In the spirit of the best nostalgic village pics, only one thing happens, and yet it turns out to mean everything to its characters.

May 4, 2010 Full Review Source: East Bay Express | Comment
East Bay Express

Mantendo seus habituais comentários políticos em segundo plano, Yimou narra uma história de amor simples, mas tocante, trazendo Zhang Ziyi numa performance absolutamente adorável.

March 30, 2006 Comment
Cinema em Cena

For the way it gave me room to ponder, for the gift of its colors, and for the delicate performance by Zhang Ziyi... it's one of my favorite films of 2001.

January 15, 2005 Comment
Looking Closer

About love acutely desired in youth and fiercely remembered in old age… delicately simple and emotionally satisfying.

March 2, 2004 Full Review Source: Decent Films Guide | Comment
Decent Films Guide

Zhang Ziyi, who is considered to be the movies new queen of kung-fu shows that she can do more than just kick *** here.

November 7, 2003 Comment
Greenwich Village Gazette

It's a simple story but lovingly told and pleasant to watch.

March 11, 2003 Full Review Source: Offoffoff | Comment
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Audience Reviews for The Road Home (Wo de fu qin mu qin)

A really sweet, heartwarming, simple sort of love story. Chinese mysticism meets Hans Christian Anderson sugar. Reminds me of my road home.

August 29, 2007
jennifxu

Super Reviewer

A true Romantic Film Here might even be considered a Chick Flick by some. Its about a man in China who is called home to bury his father, who was the village school teacher, so begins the novel as to how he met the man's mother who was a village girl who fell in love with the teacher at first sight. Not the typical

February 21, 2010
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Bruce Bruce

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