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      A Family Tour

      2018 1h 47m Drama List
      92% 13 Reviews Tomatometer 71% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score A Chinese filmmaker living in exile with her family in Hong Kong is invited to a film festival in Taiwan. Read More Read Less

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      Frank Scheck Hollywood Reporter Mixing its political and personal themes with passionate urgency, A Family Tour somehow manages to convey desperation and hopefulness simultaneously. Oct 17, 2018 Full Review Sam C. Mac Slant Magazine Ying Liang's film is righteously and vigorously angry about injustices committed by the Chinese government. Rated: 3.5/4 Sep 30, 2018 Full Review David Ehrlich indieWire A Family Tour is the work of someone whose need to reflect on his trauma is urgent enough to risk whatever hope he still has left. Rated: B+ Sep 26, 2018 Full Review Lawrence Garcia In Review Online There's a flatness to Ying's direction that renders each scene almost unbearably inert. Jun 5, 2021 Full Review Edmund Lee South China Morning Post A Family Tour is at its most powerful when it explores the family separation, enforced by state censure, at its core. Rated: 4/5 Jan 25, 2021 Full Review Siddhant Adlakha Slashfilm Ying captures quiet, often invisible torment from afar, allowing scenes to play out in unbroken master shots that create a disconnect between the characters' paranoia and the normality of their surroundings. Jul 17, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member (Español / English) Abstract Español ¿En qué momento lo privado pasa a ser mensaje artístico y político y por lo tanto público? ¿Cómo influye esto en los vínculos y las decisiones familiares? El reencuentro en Taiwán entre una joven directora disidente china exiliada en Hong Kong que concurre a un festival de cine y su madre (aún residente en China) gracias a un tour que concertaron con ésta, constituye una encrucijada que pone en movimiento todos estos interrogantes y torna por momentos difusos los límites entre las dimensiones familiar y política. English Abstract At what point does the private become an artistic and political message and therefore public? How does this influence family ties and decisions? The reunion in Taiwan between a young dissident Chinese director exiled in Hong Kong who attends a film festival and her mother (still residing in China) thanks to a tour they arranged with her, constitutes a crossroads that sets in motion all these questions and the boundaries between the family and political dimensions are blurred at times. Reseña Español Yang Shu, una joven directora china disidente y exiliada en Hong Kong (Gong Zhe) concurre como invitada con su marido e hijo pequeño a un festival de cine en una ciudad de Taiwán, integrándose además a un tour por esa ciudad que concertaron con su madre (aún residente en China y a la que no podía visitar), planteándose varias posibilidades a partir de ese reencuentro. A Family Tour es una película de Liang Ying que pinta con sosegada tensión varias aristas de una problemática relación entre madre e hija, signada por la pérdida, el exilio y diferentes miradas sobre la política y sus efectos. ¿En qué medida las historias familiares marcan las elecciones políticas y la militancia artística? ¿En qué medida la militancia artística puede determinar conductas en el plano familiar para transformarlos en mensajes políticos y por lo tanto públicos? ¿Cómo se interpone la política en los vínculos familiares? ¿Cómo decodifican madre e hija las decisiones de la otra? La película plantea con sobriedad (y algunos trazos de poesía) este reencuentro familiar como una encrucijada y a la vez un continuo de límites difusos entre esas dimensiones privada y pública, personal y artística. English Review Yang Shu, a young dissident Chinese director and exile in Hong Kong (Gong Zhe) attends as a guest with her husband and young son to a film festival in a city in Taiwan, also joining a tour of that city that they arranged with her mother (still residing in China and which he could not visit), considering various possibilities from that reunion. A Family Tour is a film by Liang Ying that paints with calm tension various edges of a problematic relationship between mother and daughter, marked by loss, exile and different views on politics and its effects. To what extent do family histories mark political elections and artistic militancy? To what extent can artistic militancy determine behaviors at the family level to transform them into political and therefore public messages? How does politics get in the way of family ties? How do mother and daughter decode each other's decisions? The film soberly (and with lines of poetry) poses this family reunion as a crossroads and at the same time a continuum of blurred boundaries between those private and public, personal and artistic dimensions. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis A Chinese filmmaker living in exile with her family in Hong Kong is invited to a film festival in Taiwan.
      Director
      Liang Ying
      Screenwriter
      Wai Chan, Liang Ying
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      Chinese
      Runtime
      1h 47m