Informed by subtlety and depth, the melodrama in Coming Home spills over into passion with so much force that to deal with its emotional impact, an economy pack of Kleenex won’t do. Not to be confused with Hal Ashby’s 1978 drama of the same name that won Oscars for Jane Fonda and Jon Voight, this Coming Home is about a family torn apart by the violent Cultural Revolution in the 1970s, a teenage daughter’s selfish ambition and a wife and mother who loses her professor husband first to the Red Guards, then to her own failing memory as Alzheimer’s sets in after decades of devotion and self-sacrifice. Starring: Gong Li, Daoming Chen and Huiwen Zhang
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