On January 19, Qilu Evening News Qilu Yidian reporter learned from the Jinan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism that the high-reputation art film "Where to Come is the Way Home" premiered in Jinan on January 17. The film touched many audiences, but still faces the "dilemma" of the schedule situation is not optimistic.
Won several international film awards
"Coming Is the Way Home" premiered in Jinan
On January 17, the film "Where to Come is the Way Home", directed by Liu Ze, a student of the 2020 Wu Tianming Screenwriting Master Class and produced by Xu Zhipeng, premiered in Jinan, Shandong Province, the hometown of producer Sun Jingyong. At the premiere ceremony held by Paragon Studios, the filmmakers also released the MV of the film's theme song.
"Coming Is the Way Home" is Liu Ze's first feature film written and directed, adapted from writer Li Yanrong's novel "Waiting".
The film has won the Most Popular Film Award at the 4th Pingyao International Film Festival, the Best Feature Film Award at the 12th New York Independent Film Festival, the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 13th Jaipur International Film Festival in India, and has been shortlisted for the 34th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival Haina Baichuan Unit, the 44th São Paulo International Film Festival in Brazil New Director Competition Unit, and the 38th Paris International Film Festival.
It is reported that the film was simultaneously released in theaters in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other places, becoming a rare realistic art film in the pre-Spring Festival period.
Interpret family stories in dialects
Revisit the meaning of survival and death
It is a film about how an ordinary family faces this change and death after the father suffers From Alzheimer's disease, the daughter, mother and those around them.
The film tells the story of the heroine who was transferred back to her hometown Jin Opera Troupe from other places in the summer, in order to help her mother take care of her father who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and then gave birth to the anxiety and pressure caused by the whole family around her father, and re-examined the meaning of survival and death.
The film begins with a wedding and ends at a funeral. The audience laughed in the first half of the movie, cried in the second half, and spent an hour and a half with the heroine to experience the most special but inevitable life path.
During a series of film festivals at home and abroad, this dialectal family story did not cause cultural obstacles to the audience, but resonated with audiences and film critics because of its reflections on topics such as "Alzheimer's patients" and "how to face the countdown to the departure of family members".
High-reputation art films are in a difficult situation
The national cinema schedule is not optimistic
"Surprisingly solid quality, neat actors, especially the old actors on the Shanxi drama stage are wonderful." The famous director Xie Fei commented after watching the film that the director scheduled many scenes in the family unit house to be real and smooth, and the long shots were excellent.
"Sincere", "emotional" and "affectionate", at the film exchange meeting after the premiere, most of the audience's speeches and feelings revolved around such keywords.
Some people talked about "thinking of their grandmothers" and "originally forgetting the memories of the family members who left us, and seemed to be awakened one by one in the process of watching the movie"..., more people talked about "wanting to go home immediately to hug their parents after watching it, and calling a few more dads and moms when they go home in the New Year", In the reunion moment near the Spring Festival, such a warm masterpiece is worth watching together with everyone who is a child.
"Art films, seeking scheduling" has become the fate of almost every art film, and this high-profile film has also encountered such a problem. Although the theater was full on the first day of release, the scheduling of "Coming Is the Way Home" was still not optimistic, and its national cinema scheduling accounted for only 0.1% on the first day of release.
"I hope that the ticket stub in the hands of every audience member will become a promotional product of the film, and transform the audience's good reputation into a higher theatrical schedule," said director Liu Ze.