So Long, My Son (2019)
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
Writers: Mei Ah, Xiaoshuai Wang
Stars: Liya Ai, Jiang Du, Zhao-Yan Guo-Zhang
Credited cast:
Liya Ai ... Haiyan Li
Jiang Du ... Hao Shen
Guo-Zhang ... Xinjian Zhang
Jingjing Li ... Meiyu Gao
Xi Qi ... Moli Shen
Jingchun Wang ... Yaojun Liu
Roy Wang ... Xing Liu
Cheng Xu ... Yingming Shen
Mei Yong ... Liyun Wang
Storyline
'We're waiting to grow old'. This sentence briefly sums up Yaoyun and his wife Liyun's bitter realization about their lives. They were once a happy family - until their son drowned playing by a reservoir. And so Yaojun and Liyun leave their home and plunge into the big city, although nobody knows them there and they cannot even understand the local dialect. Their adopted son Liu Xing does not offer them the comfort they had hoped for either. Defiantly rejecting his 'foreign' parents, he one day disappears altogether. The married couple are repeatedly enmeshed in their memories. Finally, they decide to return to the site of their lost hopes. In this family saga spanning three decades of Chinese history, the private and the political merge and the individual gets caught up in the gears of a society in the throes of constant change. Part melodrama, part critique of the times, this film takes us from the country's upheaval in the 1980s following the Cultural Revolution to the prospering ...
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Plot Keywords: china | 1980s | non linear | nonlinear timeline | flashback
Genres: Drama
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Details
Official Sites: Ad Vitam [France] | Avalon [Spain]
Country: China
Language: Chinese
Release Date: 22 March 2019 (China)
Also Known As: So Long, My Son
Box Office
Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $8,092,902
Company Credits
Production Co: Dongchun Films
Technical Specs
Runtime: 185 min
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
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