In a China going through the Cultural Revolution, the love story between Feng and Lu takes place. Its director, Zhang Yimou, here the central theme is more earthly: the reunion between two people who love each other.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 14, 2024

A small, sincere film about big, complex times...

| Aug 20, 2020

With the treatises of separation, sacrifice, reminiscences and compassion, this film is itself very difficult to forget. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jun 26, 2020

Yet another example of how Zhang Yimou is one of the best filmmakers working right now.

| Jul 26, 2019

Though Yimou somehow manages to tie this barren package up into a final moment of poetic melancholy, one can't help but feel it's a far cry from the incredibly moving heights of past works.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 10, 2019

A surfeit of melodramatic peaks weakens the Chinese director's latest film and makes it tedious to watch.

| Jan 12, 2018

It may be too restrained for audiences who enjoy a three-hankie weepie, though the emotions it evokes it earns.

| Oct 11, 2017

In Wang's vision, the past continues to define the present: a life worth living, for Wang, is predicated exactly on the necessity of acknowledging and accounting for past crimes; past traumas, un-repented, can only haunt and pollute the present.

| Oct 2, 2017

This movie took me by surprise because of the simplicity of its story, that it's also very profound and full of details. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 1, 2016

From beginning to end, the film strives to be a metaphor for the imaginary collective. It's almost perfect. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 9, 2016

The first film by Zhang Yimou that doesn't reach the standards set by his first movies. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 9, 2016

A slow, emotional and sensible tale that showcases the narrative abilities of it's director. Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2016

An unbarred melodrama. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2016

A film about memory loss and the search for acknowledgement for one's actions. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 9, 2016

In spite of the great performances by the cast, going over the same themes over and over again make the film feel tired. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 9, 2016

Daoming Chen and Gong Li give amazing performances, and Zhang Huiwen also stands out. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 4, 2016

If you only see one film this year, you want it to be Coming Home.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 18, 2016

Eventually all the repetition just starts to grind and you want it to be over, but the overall effect that stays with you afterwards is the sadness of this woman waiting for her husband, never recognizing him right in front of her.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 7, 2016

[Yimou's] latest is an effective drama consisting of devastating performances.

| Original Score: B | Feb 27, 2016

...a human-size epic, a modest story of ordinary people coping as they can with enormous pain. There's a gentleness to the production that belies the savage, mindless infliction of history on individual lives.

| Original Score: 88/100 | Jan 9, 2016