Synopsis
Coming Home (归来, 2014) — watch online Zhang Yimou's restrained melodrama starring Gong Li and Chen Daoming on iFILM. Lu Yanshi comes back from years in a labor camp, one of countless lives fractured by the Cultural Revolution. His wife Feng waited. She still waits — but when he walks through the door, she no longer knows his face.
The cruelty of the film is that the political ordeal is over, and the real one has just begun. Lu shows up each day as if for the first time, reintroducing himself to the woman who loved him. Gong Li plays Feng's fractured memory with almost no excess — a performance built on what her character can no longer hold onto.
Zhang Yimou strips away the epic scale that marks his earlier work and leaves two people in a small apartment with an unbridgeable distance between them. Quietly devastating. Stream Coming Home (2014) online on iFILM.
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