Very touching film. This is a story of great sorrow and heavy losses. The husband who finally returns from prison camp is not recognizable to the amnesic wife. Yet he persists in finding ways to be with her.

Gong Li's beauty may not bowl me over as it once did, but her acting still does. She is one of cinema's greatest actresses. Even when acting in crappy movies (see, e.g. Chinese Box) she still manages to shine. However, there's little chance that Coming Home would be crappy with Zhang Yimou at the helm. This is a beautiful film, both poignant and heartwarming. And Li's costar Chen Daoming is superb as well.

A bit too perfectly romantic, à la “The Notebook”, but the tragedy of families separated by the Cultural Revolution and the long-lasting impact make for a good human story.

Filmed with emotional tenderness and unerring pictorial power. Gong Li wonderful as always. Marvellous film.

If you don't cry in this there is something wrong with you

Bittersweet...but mostly bitter. A longing to be reunited ends with Alzheimer's or maybe severe dementia. The longing of one true lucid moment of connection...alas is not to be. However, love is never lost. Hope is forever. Commitment.

A Chinese tear-jerker with a great performance by Gong Li.

Yet another heart-achingly beautiful film from one of my favourite directors of all time. This reminds me of "The Road Home", an earlier film of his and in many ways i feel that that film and "Coming Home" both exist in the same universe. I cried the whole 1,48 minutes of the film. As per usual Gong Li excels, but so does the rest of the cast, Chen Daoming (Lu) and newcomer Zhang Huiwen (Dandan) are nothing short of astounding. I can't wait to see Huiwen in future roles as she seems to be a true force to be reckoned with. Loved seeing Gong Li play a much older character than she has done in the past. Beautiful, poetic, dolorous, but also hopefull.

For those who think the Cultural Revolution and Chairman Mao are cool, please watch this film and study it by heart. What you praise and look forward is actually provoking the anger and hurting those suffered again.

Gong Li's acting prowess harnesses the emotional significance of the ill corollary to The Cultural Revolution in this Zhang Yimou's tearjerker about an amnesiac woman trapped in the surrealism awaiting her husband's homecoming.

SUCH A SAD MOVIE... BUT SHOWS WHAT TRUE LOVE IS REALLY ABOUT <3

A slow and beautiful story along with great acting still did feel the movie was a tad too long. The stories about a husband returning from jail after a decade to find his wife have forgotten his face while still reaming faithful to him.

Chen Daoming is my *FAVORITE* actor. But Gong Li was doing most of the work--- superbly. Amazing duo, captivating tension, tear-worthy story.

Wow, a post-Hero Zhang Yimou movie that doesn't suck. Still, not sure what's the appeal of this overly sentimental movie. Gong Li's great performance aside, the are tons of better Cultural Revolution movies (The Blue Kite for one and Zhang's own To Live).

Enjoyable bittersweet film. Not likely one I will return to but I enjoyed it.

A nice film that had different affects on me. One was the disgusting nature of the Stalinist bureaucracy in China, a society where friends and family were used to inform on each other, act as agents of the state and the stifling bureaucracy that had its heel on the neck of society. What a perversion of socialism. But it is also a beautiful story about the consequences of this system. The tragedy of a woman whose husband, an academic, is in exile or prison, the film doesn't specify which, and the daughter, the new revolutionary youth whose duty it is to serve the state and does so with revolutionary vigor to the point that she disowns her own father. The father eventually returns but the woman he loves no longer recognizes him. This is the tragedy that dominates the film. Gong Li, gives a great performance of the mother, she is one of China's great actors. I couldn't help being reminded of Julie Christie and that excellent film, Away From Her.

An amazing love story. I oohed and aahed every 3 minute.

Deliberate slow-pace will require the right frame of mind to sit through this heart-wrenching story about separated lovers. Gong Li is impressive in her role.

This is a beautiful movie, heartbreaking. Great acting, impeccable direction.

Coming Home is one of Zhang Yimou's best films!