Last Train Home
Documentary | Chinese with English subtitles | 85 minutes
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For the Chinese New Year, an estimated 130 million Chinese workers travel for days on hot, unbearably crowded trains, to their rural villages to visit family. Last Train Home follows Zhang, and his wife Chen, as they make such a journey. Despite their good intentions, their daughter, Qin, is rebellious and confrontational. She resents living in poverty in the small village and seeing her parents for a few days, once a year. Angering her parents, she intends to quit school and look for work in the city. Qin is determined to be independent.
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Why Stream This Film?
- Rotten Tomatoes Score (Critics Consensus): 100%
- Metacritic Score: 86
Accolades
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards: Winner, Best Documentary
- Directors Guild of America: Nominated, Best Director (Lixin Fan)
- National Society of Film Critics Award: Nominated, Best Documentary
- Last Train Home received a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.
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Lixin Fan has visual panache – LAST TRAIN HOME has some gorgeously composed shots – but he also has something that can’t be taught: The patience and understanding to allow a family to tell their heartbreaking story in their own way.
Director Lixin Fan’s documentary is informed by a melancholy humanism, and finds unexpected beauty in almost unbearably harsh circumstances. It tells the story of a family caught, and possibly crushed, between the past and the future – a story, that, on its own, is moving, even heartbreaking.
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