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| Director: Yimou Zhang
Actors: Ziyi Zhang, Honglei Sun, Hao Zheng, Yulian Zhao, Bin Li
Category: DVD
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Rating:  133 reviews
Sales Rank: 201460
Format: Pal
Languages: German (Original Language), French (Original Language), Mandarin Chinese (Original Language), German (Subtitled), English (Subtitled)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 0330386
EAN: 4030521303867
ASIN: B00005K4MT
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
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At the start of the most recent film from Chinese director Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, Ju Dou, Shanghai Triad), a young man returns to his native village after the death of his father, the village's schoolteacher, who died while trying to raise money for a new schoolhouse. His body is in a neighboring town; the young man's mother insists that it be brought back on foot, lest his spirit not find his way home. From this starting point, the young man recounts the tale of his parents' courtship, which involved a red banner, mushroom dumplings, a colorful barrette, and a broken bowl. The Road Home is beautifully filmed, particularly the luminous face of Zhang Ziyi (from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), whose performance is a heartrending portrait of hope and yearning. A simple but deeply emotional film. --Bret Fetzer
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 Zhang Yimou July 5, 2009
BADGE (gold coast australia)
go to your nearest dvd store and buy all of Zhang Yimous films then get a case of your favourite Amber Nectar a huge Chinese takeaway and ENJOY!!
Beautiful, Touching June 8, 2009
Craig Connell (Lockport, NY USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
For fans of faster-paced movies, be forewarned: this is extremely slow. For others who love a beautifully-filmed movie or a touching romance story whatever the pace, this Chinese film will do nicely.
Zhang Ziyi, who has now become an International star, never looked prettier and more appealing than here. Maybe that's because she plays such a sweet, innocent, non-violent (no martial arts here) character: a woman smitten with a new teacher in town and one who will go any lengths (in a totally pure sense) to be noticed and attract this man, mainly in the form of exercising incredible patience.
The long, middle segment of the film is in brilliant, almost stunning-looking color. The beginning and end of the film are both in black-and-white. The cinematography for both parts is magnificent. The film would really look good with a sharp Blu-Ray transfer.
A bowl, a red jacket, a barrette, mushroom dumplings . . . May 15, 2009
JNagarya (Boston, MA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Initially (I'd only recently discovered Zhang Ziyi) I was doubtful: the cover illustration gave me the impression that it's a children's story, for children. On the other hand, though, were others' reviews, so I couldn't quite put it out of mind. Finally, after passing it over a half-dozen times or so, I decided -- still doubting and hesitant -- to buy it on the strength of Zhang Ziyi's acting in other films. I'll not attempt to detail the "plot," or incidents in it -- others have done that with varying degrees of accuracy.
It is not a children's story.
At the end of my first viewing I was speechless. Though a published writer, I could find no words to describe, or represent, or capture what it is, what it does. I've since lost count of how many times I've watched it -- spellbound. I've struggled to find the words with which to write adequate review; but as that has seemed impossible, only added comments to other reviews. This is the best I've been able to do:
Elementally human.
Humane.
Universal.
Exquisitely gentle.
Eventually I put it back into its case and onto the shelf. But the very next day I had to put it back into the DVD player. How can so moving a story be made of a few ordinary, inconsequential materialities? --
An old chipped and stained -- but favorite -- bowl, both imbued with and vessel for an innocent, open, generous heart.
A red jacket.
A barrette.
Mushroom dumplings.
By some incomprehensible magic.
The film itself, to the eye -- every frame a painting. I don't know that I've ever seen another so perfectly realized, both perfectly balanced contrasts of crisp black-and-white, and splendid countless soft colors of autumn.
The expert use of lines -- hills, trees, mountains . . .
One road to and from a tiny village, which seems most often to run in only one direction: from.
It is an extremely rare film which one forgets has a camera present. Even when I consciously reminded myself there was -- that understanding almost immediately evaporated.
Flawless acting, especially by the shapeless girl/young woman in pigtails and baggy trousers.
A gift from those who made it, beyond the reach of all deserved, humbled, reverent superlatives. Special as a barrette, as mushroom dumplings.
You need to own your own -- widescreen -- copy. And a multi-disk DVD player as vessel for it -- so you needn't remove it when you want to watch some other film.
fabulous movie January 8, 2009
A. Gottlieb (nyc)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Why can Hollywood make wonderful movies like "The Road Home" It is a beautiful, moving love story, goes back and for between the past and the present. The past is in black & white and the present in technicolor. I highly recommend this movie
Wonderfully Sweet, Simple Love Story That Captures the Heart August 23, 2007
Sean Pasek (Albuquerque, NM)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
With all of the complex love stories that come out of Hollywood these days, you sometimes enjoy the refreshing feeling of a love story that is simple. I am not necessarily stating that one is better than the other, but you often find that many complex love stories just don't completely work. The Road Home is a beautiful, simple love story that is as simple as the time and location in which it takes place, and the pieces fit together like a simple jigsaw puzzle.
The son of Zhao Di has come home to the village where is mother is from. He learns that his father has passed away. While the son grew up in the village, he has spent much of his adult life in the city. He has come home to be with his mother and to help her makes plans for his father's burial. His mother insists that his father be walked from the city hospital back to the village. Understand that this is no easy task since the village is good distance from the city. Her son tries to talk her out of it, but she is adament. And it is in the re-telling of how Zhao Di met her husband that convinces both the son and audience to understand why she wants to walk her husband back to the village.
The film takes off from here as the talented Zhang Ziyi portrays the young Zhao Di. She is an eighteen year-old girl living with her blind mother. She is a beautiful young woman with many suitors wishing for her hand in marriage. She has turned them all down. We don't know why except that we can guess that she hasn't found what she's looking for in a husband. Enter Luo, the new school teacher who has come to the village after living in the city. Zhao Di is immediately captivated upon first seeing him.
The sweetness in this film is in the simplicity of the village and the time. Water must be fetched from nearby wells. Looms are used to make clothing and cloths. And even the "courtship" that is done more by Zhao Di than by Luo is sweetly simple. She uses her culinary talents to make the best dishes with the hope that Luo will eat from her dish. She waits by the road for one glimpse of Luo. She walks to the well that is near the school for the chance that she might see or hear Luo.
People often make the mistake that the more primitive a technological country, the more unhappy the people must be. And yet,Zhao Di is not an unhappy girl. She is an excellent cook, and she enjoys looking after her mother. You get the sense that she does this not out of a sense of duty, but because she wants to. Zhao Di never lives anywhere else but in the village. The village is where she is happy.
Zhang Ziyi is simply brilliant is capturing the sweetness and determination of Zhao Di. She portrays Zhao Di with a fierce persistence to win the heart of Luo at any cost. You will see several scenes in which she demonstrates this.
I must mention the cinematography. The locations and colors that are captured reveal an almost magical world with golden leaves on the birch trees and snow-swept hills of winter.
Director Yimou Zhang does a great job of incorporating the technology of the time period. In many ways, I was as captivated by the use of the loom, the sweatbox used for cooking dumplings, and the walk to the well as I was of the sweet love story. I like his use of black and white in the future, and then the use of color for the past. Most directors would do it the other way around. And yet the color used for the past seems to show that it is revealing a happier time when young Zhao Di was in the fullness of her life, and the black and white showing how life is swiftly coming to an inevitable close for her after the loss of her one true love.
The Road Home will capture your heart with its story and your eyes with its images. Many saints, masters, and philosophers over the course of the centuries have stated that love is actually very simple; it is we who make it complex. This beautiful film seems to truly capture that idea.
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