Another multi-award winning film from director Yimou Zhang and actress Gong Li. A devoted couple are forced to separate when the husband is arrested and sent to a labour camp as a political prisoner, just as his wife is injured in an accident. Released during the last days of the Cultural Revolution, he finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife has amnesia and remembers little of her past. Unable to recognize him, she patiently waits for her husband's return. A stranger alone in the heart of his broken family, the husband determines to resurrect their past together and reawaken his wife's memory. In Mandarin with English subtitles.
110 minutes, Parental Guidance 7-9 Drama, On the art circuit