Great small-budget movie that delivers the goods, even if it is a tad sentimental. Young man return home from the city to the remote village of his parents on learning that his father, the schoolteacher, has died. The rest of the film is largely a flashback tracing the remarkable story of devotion between his parents to each other and the devotion of his father's students to their beloved teacher. The acting throughout is superb (Ziyi Zhang impressed me much more in The Road Home than in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) but the real treat is the wonderful photography that makes you want to drink in the colours and scenes at every shot. A beautiful film. From the director of Not One Less and Red Sorghum.
Review of The Road Home
