Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
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★★★★★
Xiaoshuai Wang's film 'So Long My Son' is a quiet gem. It tells the story of a family wracked by tragedy, over four decades in a rapidly changing China. At first, it feels like it's going to be a bit of a misery-fest, and it's not as if pain is ever far away....
★★★★★
What a beautiful story about what it means to be a parent in this world and how we are all connected.
The story is told by jumping back and forth in time, a flow of scenes giving the viewer a glimpse of the changes in the life of a couple who lost their son a...
★★★★★
An immense emotional masterpiece with intellectual vibrations which invites the audience, through the crossed gaze of several Chinese families, to question the universality of the feeling of filiation and the meaning of existence. A magisterial and bitter melo...
★★★★★
'So Long, My Son' made in 2019 by Xiaoshuai Wang and presented at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2020 is proof that Chinese cinema is much more diverse and interesting than the mix of historical, martial arts or political propaganda movies...
★★★★★
I saw it as a honest - precise portrait of contemporary China. And as realistic, warm image of the essence of parenthood. A profound iuseful film for so many motives than it is unfair to define one of them because, I suppose, each viewer discovers something pr...
