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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007)

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers poster
Directed by
Wayne Wang
Genre
drama film, comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 23m
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 26 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An older Chinese man visits his adult daughter in the United States. They reconnect and talk about their lives and the past.

gentlecontemplativepoignantquietunderstatedintimatebittersweetrestrained

What happens

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is a 2007 American drama film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Faye Yu, Henry O, Vida Ghahremani and Pasha D. Lychnikoff. It is adapted from the short story by Yiyun Li and shot on a high-end high-definition video camera. It was made as a companion piece to The Princess of Nebraska, a 2007 film also directed by Wayne Wang and adapted from Yiyun Li’s short story. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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