Taking Father Home
Sep. 19th, 2008 05:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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A City in Flux
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: September 19, 2008
“Taking Father Home,” the debut feature of the Chinese director Ying Liang, is a poetic study of resolve and revenge. It is also a stunning introduction to a rare new talent.
When 17-year-old Xu Yun (Xu Yun) learns that his village in Sichuan Province is being replaced by a government industrial zone, he sets out to fetch the wayward father who abandoned him six years earlier. Armed with only a vague address and a pair of placid geese in lieu of cash, Yun heads for the big city of Zigong and a closure he may not even know he needs. More
