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The tension and suspense surrounding Lu’s return suddenly dissolves, giving way to a mood of gentle, contemplative melancholy. Zhang’s unmatched skill as a choreographer of swift and complex action. The first section of “Coming Home” culminates in a harrowing sequence that demonstrates Mr. Innocent people do not only suffer under a ruthless system they become agents of its cruelty. But in a time of political extremity, ordinary feelings and actions can have terrible consequences. Her selfishness and shortsightedness, and her inability to sympathize with her parents or put aside her own needs are all perfectly normal. Feng Wanyu is both terrified and eager to be with him, while Dan Dan, who barely remembers her father, is worried about the disruptive effect his presence will have on her life. Gong plays Feng Wanyu, a teacher in a provincial city whose husband, Lu Yanshi (Chen Daoming), a professor, has been sent to a labor camp in a purge of “rightists.” Feng Wanyu lives with their teenage daughter, Dan Dan (Zhang Huiwen), a dancer who dreams of playing the lead in the ballet “ The Red Detachment of Women.” Her father’s pariah status threatens her ambition, and she is eager to denounce him when local officials demand it.Įarly in the film, Lu Yanshi has escaped and made his way home in a doomed and desperate effort to see his family again. “ Coming Home,” only their second collaboration in the past 20 years, reunites them in an intimate, politically resonant story set in the final years and the immediate aftermath of the Cultural Revolution. Zhang a muse, an alter ego and an emblem of China’s suffering and resilience at important moments in the nation’s history. Gong, noble, fragile and indomitable, was for Mr.

In the 1980s and ’90s they worked together on a remarkable run of movies - including “Red Sorghum,” “Raise the Red Lantern,” “Shanghai Triad” and “To Live” - that were central to the resurgence of Chinese cinema and made international stars of both of them. Zhang Yimou and Gong Li constitute one of the great director-actress pairings in movie history.