Review of Coming Home (2015) by Trailesque — 19 Apr 2017

I have enjoyed Zhang's films with Gong Li in the past, and this has its good points, but failed to really connect with me. A man, an intellectual imprisoned during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, comes home to his family after 10 years or so - but his wife does not recognize him, even though she goes every month to the train station with hand-painted signs, hoping to see him.

Thus begins a series of attempts by the man and the daughter of the family to get the Gong Li character to wake up and begin living in reality again. The scenery and acting are fine, but the story began to grow tedious.