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Titre: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Format: DVD
Condition: Neuf
Nombre de disques: 1
Date de production: 2009-05-26
Genre: Drame
Acteurs: Faye Yu, Henry O, Vida Ghahremani, Pasha Lychnicoff
Directeur: Wayne Wang
Langue: Anglais
Durée: 1 hour and 23 minutes
Region Code: DVD zone 1
Marque: Magnolia Home Ent
Langue des sous-titres: Anglais, Espagnol
Classification: MPAA Not Rated
Description: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
A woman in her early 40s moves from China to America to start a new life. Her father comes to visit her because of her recent divorce. Their generational and cultural conflicts end up revealing the darker lies and cover-ups within her family during the cultural revolution.

AMAZON.COM
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is a small chamber piece about the intricacies of family and the complexities of lives connected to two countries. In other words, it's ideal subject matter for director Wayne Wang (The Joy Luck Club), a frequent specialist in such material. This one's set in an all-American small city (not named, but filmed in Spokane, Washington), where an all-American woman (Faye Yu) is visited by her very Chinese father (Henry O). At one time a rocket scientist during the heyday of the Cold War, he's been at loose ends for a while. His main occupations while visiting his predictably busy daughter are cooking her elaborate Chinese meals and trying to counsel her on her love life--he knows a lot about food, not so much about the ways an independent 21st-century American woman might behave. This believable sketch is based on a short story by Yiyun Li, who also scripted, and it hits some credible notes without generating a great deal of cinematic excitement. The subplot, in which the father strikes up a kind of friendship with an Iranian woman he meets in a park (their conversation is fluid, despite not sharing a common language), feels a bit insistent in providing a contrast to the difficult talks between father and child. The inexpensive-looking video photography doesn't help, either. But it does work as a quiet mood piece, and modest actors' workshop. Wang directed another film from a Yiyun Li story, The Princess of Nebraska, at about the same time as this film. --Robert Horton

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