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Cherries (2008)

Cherries poster
Original title
樱桃
Directed by
Zhang Jiabei
Genre
drama
Country
People's Republic of China
Runtime
1h 41m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In a poor Yunnan village in the early 1980s, a lame farmer marries a mentally disabled woman named Cherry. She longs for a child and finds an abandoned baby girl in the woods. Years later, their daughter Scarlet copes with growing up under the intense love of her mentally handicapped mother.

tenderpoignantearthyhumanisticslow-pacedquietly devastatingmelancholicdomestic

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