LUO YE GUI GEN (GETTING HOME)

Hong Kong & China/2007/Mandarin dialogue with English subtitles/Colour/35mm/101 mins

Zhao (well-known mainland China stage comedian Zhao Benshan), a worker in his fifties, is out drinking when his fellow worker dies. Despite having no funds, Zhao lives up to a promise to carry his friend’s corpse back to his distant home, and sets off on a gently humorous but bizarre journey. Using a series of inventive means of transport. He has a marvellous series of encounters: bus robbers, beekeepers, a man who stages his own funeral and a bag lady who sells her blood to survive. Finally, Zhao finds some resolution in his own life.

“Crossing much of southern China and ending near the Three Gorges Dam, this is a quirky road movie with a cleverly restrained central performance and a series of engaging cameos by well-known Chinese actors. Zhang Yang has made a series of observant and humane feature films (like Shower), which celebrate the stories and lives of ordinary Chinese living far from the ‘economic miracle’, and Getting Home is perhaps his greatest achievement in this vein, offering a gentle, heart-warming and often ironic vision of provincial China.” – Simon Field

Director(s) :

Zhang Yang

ZHANG YANG was born in Beijing in 1965 and studied at Zhongshan University, Guangdong, and the Central Theatrical Institute. A pioneering underground music video director, prior to Getting Home he wrote and directed the features Spicy Love Soup (1997; Golden Rooster Award for Best First Film), Shower (1999; Audience Award at the Far East Film Festival), Quitting (2001; Netpac Award at Venice) and Sunflower (2005; Silver Seashell at San Sebastián).
Crew : Er Yong(Producer), Yu Lik-wai(Cinematographer), Lai Yiu-fai(Cinematographer), Yang Hongu(Editor), Dou Peng(Composer), Zhao Benshan(Main Cast), Hong Qiwen(Main Cast), Song Dandan(Main Cast), Guo Degang(Main Cast), Hu Jun(Main Cast), Sun Haiying(Main Cast), Stanley Tong(Producer)
Format : Colour/35mm
Running Time : 101 mins
Country : China,Hong Kong
Programme : Cinema of Asia
Venue : Mall of the Emirates - CineStar 8, Mall of the Emirates - CineStar 8, Mall of the Emirates - CineStar 9, Mall of the Emirates - CineStar 9
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