Last Train Home
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 22, 2011
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Zeitgeist Films
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Composition by | Olivier Alary |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Epic in scale and global in outlook yet devastatingly intimate and extraordinarily personal in focus...
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Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Lixin Fan, handling his own cinematography, shoots with such a painterly eye that he almost undermines the social critique he's making.
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Seattle Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Do not miss it. [Full review in Spanish]
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Rincón de cine
Chinese-Canadian director Lixin Fan considers the social upheavals wrought by China's economic miracle.
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Chicago Reader
Lixin Fan's amazingly intimate account could only be made with almost unlimited and unrestrained access -- a privilege that isn't abused and one that pays dividends for us in many ways.
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Urban Cinefile
Rarely in a documentary does every shot matter as a bearer of emotion and information. Lixin Fan's nonfiction debut, Last Train Home (2009), is just such an exceptional movie.
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Artforum
Rivaling China's finest documentarians, first-time director Lixin Fan begins his Last Train Home with a handful of unshakable images.
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Film Comment Magazine
Product Description:
Changhua Zhang and Suqin Chen are a couple from a rural village in China's Sichuan province. Frustrated with their lack of employment opportunities, they traveled to the industrial city of Guangdong and took jobs with a large textile firm, making clothing for export. However, Changhua and Suqin were not able to bring their two children with them, and since then the kids have been raised by their grandparents, with their mother and father staying in touch though occasional telephone calls. The only time they have a chance to see their now-teenage children is during China's annual New Year's celebration; they are among the 130 million Chinese whose work keeps them away from their families and make the trip home during the holiday, resulting in an overcrowded rail system as the trains struggle to keep up with the rush. Filmmaker Lixin Fan follows Changhua and Suqin over the course of several years in the documentary LAST TRAIN HOME, as the couple makes the long journey home (over a thousand miles) only to find that their family is slowly falling apart -- 16-year-old Qin and her younger brother, Yang, are all but strangers now to their parents, and the youngsters have come to resent their parents, while Qin considers leaving school to move to the city on her own and get a job. LAST TRAIN HOME received its world premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
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- Sales Rank: 107,275
- UPC: 795975113335
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