Gui Lai (2014)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 109 minuten
Alternative titles: Coming Home / 歸來 / 归来
Country:
China
Directed by: Yimou Zhang
Starst: Gong Li, Chen Daoming and Zhang Huiwen
IMDb score:
7,3 (7.078)
Releasedate: 16 May 2014
Gui Lai plot
The story follows a Chinese dissident (Daoming Chen), an intellectual who is sent to a labor camp in the wake of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and thus separated from his family. Twenty years later, returning home is difficult when it turns out that his wife (Li Gong) suffers from amnesia and no longer recognizes him. Driven by love, he and their daughter try to regain a place in her life.
Actors and actresses
Feng Wanyu
Lu Yanshi
Dandan
Director of the Propaganda Work Team
Comrade Liu
Instructor Dong
Director Li
Ballet Headmaster
Doctor Dai
Gong Suzhen
Reviews & comments
BBarbie
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- 12893 messages
- 7675 votes
I was really looking forward to this new collaboration between Zhang and his former muse Li, but my (too?) high expectations were not met. A gray story told in gray images. After a promising start, the film gets bogged down halfway through in a rather monotonous repetition of moves. It is a pity that there are so few developments in the plot and that the betrayal of the daughter is not actually worked out. It's all a bit uninspired. Nevertheless, still a good film, but Yimou Zhang has proven often enough that he can do much better.
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Onderhond
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- 87585 messages
- 12834 votes
Bland from Yimou Zhang.
He returns to his old dramas, but forgets the special pictures he used to shoot. What remains is a sadly stripped-down drama about personal drama that arises from the political circumstances in China.
I recently saw 1980 Nian Dai De Ai Qing, of which you can actually say the same. However, the contrast between the two films is enormous. Where Jianqi Huo managed to create a beautiful, emotional and visually attractive film, Zhang presents us with a rather gritty, gray drama.
Li actually doesn't do that well, Daoming Chen does a little better but can't really carry the film either. The drama never really grabs, which gives the label "sentimental" a somewhat (rightly) negative connotation. Visually it is decent, but not very uplifting.
And then the film just quietly continues, but then 111 minutes long. No, feels like a dead fin de career movie for Yimou Zhang. Hopefully he will get over this, otherwise it's a lame swan song.
2.5*
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Movsin
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- 8264 messages
- 8426 votes
Sad and moving story told in all sobriety and with feeling by Yimou Zhang, director of which I have already seen about 7 films and of which, next to this one, "Not one less" appealed to me the most.
Towards the end, over-sentimentality is narrowly avoided and the emphasis is rightly placed under the skin on the bold political background.
Excellent renditions.
Beautiful cinema.
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