A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007)
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Films About Aging and the Elderly
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A good movie
12 years, 4 months ago at Dec 10 20:31
Wayne Wang is not really a famous director nowadays but I have a weak spot for him so when I get the opportunity, I always check his movies. Furthermore, my father is Dutch and moved to live in France and I'm French and moved to live in the Netherlands so the subject of this movie really touched me personally. Anyway, it was basically a really simple story with only 2 characters and most of the mo... read more
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In A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS, elderly Mr. Shi (Henry O) arrives from China to spend time with his divorced daughter, Yilan (Faye Yu), hoping to help her sort out her life in this strange new country. That, after all, is his duty as a parent. Yilan, although polite, doesn’t feel like being the dutiful daughter. Unlike Geraldine in DIM SUM, Yilan can’t wait to be rid of her parent, whose need to pry into and control her like becomes a nuisance - even if he does lovingly cook up multi-course meals for her at the end of the workday. Where sharing meals served as familial and cultural bonding in DIM SUM, it is seen as an i
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Release date: 10 April 2008
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