Directed by:
Xiaoshuai WangCinematography:
Hyeon-seok KimComposer:
Yingda DongCast:
Jingchun Wang, Mei Yong, Xi Qi, Roy Wang, Jiang Du, Liya Ai, Cheng Xu, Jingjing Li, Yanguozhang Zhao, Zhenjiang Bao, Shuang Wu, Zizi Wang, Xinyuan Zhang, Jiachen Wu (more)VOD (1)
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‘We’re waiting to grow old’. This sentence briefly sums up Yaoyun and his wife Liyun’s bitter realisation about their lives. They were once a happy family – until their son drowned playing by a reservoir. And so Yaojun and Liyun leave their home and plunge into the big city, although nobody knows them there and they cannot even understand the local dialect. Their adopted son Liu Xing does not offer them the comfort they had hoped for either. Defiantly rejecting his ‘foreign’ parents, he one day disappears altogether. The married couple are repeatedly enmeshed in their memories. Finally, they decide to return to the site of their lost hopes. In this family saga spanning three decades of Chinese history, the private and the political merge and the individual gets caught up in the gears of a society in the throes of constant change. Part melodrama, part critique of the times, this film takes us from the country’s upheaval in the 1980s following the Cultural Revolution to the prospering turbo-capitalism of the present day. Told in sweeping tableaux, it makes visible the deep scars that lie beneath the surface of an ostensibly unbroken success story. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
![Jingchun Wang](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/563/160563887_58acf3.jpg)
Jingchun Wang
China
Best movies:
So Long, My Son (2019)
The Witness (2016)
The Flowers of War (2011)
Mei Yong
China
Best movies:
So Long, My Son (2019)
Ocean Heaven (2010)
After Shock (2010)
![Xi Qi](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/057/162057918_417bb7.png)
Xi Qi
China
Best movies:
So Long, My Son (2019)
Mystery (2012)
Roy Wang
China
Best movies:
So Long, My Son (2019)
L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties (2016)
Pound of Flesh (2015)
Jiang Du
China
Best movies:
So Long, My Son (2019)
Operation Red Sea (2018)
The Bravest (2019)
Liya Ai
China
Best movies:
So Long, My Son (2019)
Miss Granny (2015)
Cheng Xu
China
Best movies:
So Long, My Son (2019)
Heroic Duo (2003)
Jingjing Li
China
Best movies:
So Long, My Son (2019)
Monster Hunt (2015)
Yanguozhang Zhao
China
Best movies:
So Long, My Son (2019)
An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)
Zhenjiang Bao
China
Best movies:
So Long, My Son (2019)
Buddha Mountain (2010)
Blind Shaft (2003)
Shuang Wu
China
Best movies:
So Long, My Son (2019)
Our Shining Days (2017)
Zizi Wang
China
Best movies:
So Long, My Son (2019)
Never Said Goodbye (2016)
The Man from Macau (2014)
Xinyuan Zhang
Best movies:
So Long, My Son (2019)
Jiachen Wu
Best movies:
So Long, My Son (2019)
Yajun Wang
China
Best movies:
So Long, My Son (2019)
![Wayne Liu](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/556/164556710_8effd8.jpg)
Wayne Liu
China
Best movies:
So Long, My Son (2019)