Winner of Best Actor and Best Actress in Berlin, this epic Chinese drama spans decades, tracing a group of friends...
Winner of Best Actor and Best Actress in Berlin, this epic Chinese drama spans decades, tracing a group of friends through personal drama and major cultural change.
"Yaojun (Wang Jingchun) and Liyun (Yong Mei) were once happy, but when their young son dies in a tragic accident, the couple never truly recovers. They adopt a son who struggles to adapt to his new circumstances and rebels against his anxious parents, culminating in him running away from home. A mainstay of Chinese independent filmmaking, Xiaoshuai (Beijing Bicycle, Shanghai Dreams) uses this story as the basis for a thorough examination of the effect of the political on the personal in China. The Cultural Revolution, China's One-Child Policy and eventual burgeoning wealth all play out as the backdrop to this immensely emotional story of loss, love and redemption and human upheaval in China." (Sydney Film Festival)
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69 %16 reviewsAudience score rating
"The film finds, then repeatedly breaks, your heart, before a subtly momentous finale..."
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Variety
Variety"So Long, My Son signals a return to form for one of Chinese cinema's favourite sons."
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South China Morning Post
South China Morning Post"A formidable and, for the most part, involving work of novelistic scope."
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Screen Daily
Screen Daily"The story is an intimate one, yet it embraces a large cast of characters who reflect the immense changes that have swept China over the last fifty years."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterSo Long, My Son | Details
Award winner- Winner of the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Actress (Yong) and Best Actor (Jingchun Wang), 2019 Berlin International Film Festival
- Runtime
- 185
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- China
