9/30/15 review of film Coming Home, dir. by Zhang Yimou

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the film Coming Home, directed by Zhang Yimou.

In the film Coming Home, a Chinese family is shattered by the Chinese Cultural Revolution and tries for years afterward to reunite. In my Twitter thread, I compare Coming Home to Zhang's film Ju Dou. I also cultural amnesia, the personal and the political, and ideas about aging, as applied to the film. I also discuss the performances of Gong Li, Zhang Huiwen, and Chen Daoming.

Here is the trailer for Coming Home.

I saw this film at the Landmark Theatre Chez Artiste Theatre in Denver, Colorado.