So Long My Son

So Long My Son

2DCS/ES15
Director:Wang Xiaoshuai
Cast:Wang Jingchun, Yong Mei, Qi Xi, Du Jiang
Premiere:7. October 2019
Length:175 minutes
Genre:Drama

Director: Wang Xiaoshuai  •  Cast: Wang Jingchun, Yong Mei, Qi Xi, Du Jiang, Wang Yuan, Ai Liya

Some encounters are only for a moment, some farewells can take a lifetime. So Long, My Son is a superbly constructed family saga depicting the transformations of Chinese society amid the story of a tragedy-stricken married couple. As much an emotional melodrama as it is a penetrating study of cultural and political shifts, the film follows its protagonists over the course of three decades - from the upheavals of the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1980s to the troubled prosperity of contemporary Chinese turbo-capitalism. Unpretentious, extraordinarily moving, and masterfully filmed So Long, My Son is proof that big feelings don't need big gestures.

Length: 175 min

Year: 2019
Local premiere date: 7. October 2019
World premiere date: 1. November 2019

Country of origin:

  • China

Director: Wang Xiaoshuai  •  Cast: Wang Jingchun, Yong Mei, Qi Xi, Du Jiang, Wang Yuan, Ai Liya

Some encounters are only for a moment, some farewells can take a lifetime. So Long, My Son is a superbly constructed family saga depicting the transformations of Chinese society amid the story of a tragedy-stricken married couple. As much an emotional melodrama as it is a penetrating study of cultural and political shifts, the film follows its protagonists over the course of three decades - from the upheavals of the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1980s to the troubled prosperity of contemporary Chinese turbo-capitalism. Unpretentious, extraordinarily moving, and masterfully filmed So Long, My Son is proof that big feelings don't need big gestures.

Year: 2019
Local premiere date: 7. October 2019
World premiere date: 1. November 2019

Country of origin:

  • China