VK08320140
LAST TRAIN HOME
By Lixin Fan

Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the world's largest human migration¡ªan epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future.

Working over several years in classic verite style Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan (with the producers of the award-winning hit documentary Up the Yangtze) travels with one couple who have embarked on this annual trek for almost two decades. Like so many of China's rural poor, Zhang Changhua and Chen Suqin left behind their two infant children for grueling factory jobs. Their daughter Qin¡ªnow a restless and rebellious teenager¡ªboth bitterly resents their absence and longs for her own freedom away from school, much to the utter devastation of her parents. Emotionally engaging and starkly beautiful, Last Train Home's intimate observation of one fractured family sheds light on the human cost of China's ascendance as an economic superpower.

Reviews
~ "A miniature masterpiece of documentary observation!" - Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE

~ "Remarkable¡­ 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." - G. Allen Johnson, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

~ "Exceptional documentary!" - Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES

Awards
~ WINNER - GOLDEN GATE AWARD 2010 - SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - INVESTIGATIVE DOCUMENTARY PRIZE
~ WINNER - RIVERRUN 2010 - BEST DOCUMENTARY
~ WINNER - IDFA 2009 - BEST FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY
~ WINNER - RIDM 2009 - BEST CANADIAN FILM
~ WINNER - WHISTLER FILM FESTIVAL 2009 - BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
~ WINNER - VICTORIA FILM FESTIVAL 2010 - BEST DOCUMENTARY
~ WINNER - LOS ANGELES ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL 2010 - GRAND JURY PRIZE FOR OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
~ WINNER - LOS ANGELES ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL 2010 - BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
DVD (Region 1, Color, Mandarin and Sichuan dialect with English subtitles)
87 minutes
2009
 
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