A film by Zhang Yang

Mandarin, with subtitles in English
China, 2007 (101 minutes)

A middle-aged construction worker struggles to return a fellow worker's body...

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Synopsis
Co-workers Zhao and Liu, old friends both in their 50s, are drinking heavily one day when Liu dies unexpectedly.  In order to keep a drunken promise made to his friend, Zhao decides to bring Liu's body home to his family via  daunting journey that requires the pair to travel over a thousand miles across Western China.  With next to no money and a rotting corpse on his back, Zhao embarks on an odyssey that brings him face-to-face with all manners and social classes.

"Crossing much of southern China and ending near the Three Gorges Dam, this is a quirky road movie with a cleverly restrained central performance with a series of engaging cameos by well-known Chinese actors, . . the film celebrates ordinary Chinese living far from the "economic miracle", and Getting Home is perhaps his greatest achievement in this vein, offering a gentle, heart-warming and often ironic vision of provincial China.     --- British critic, Simon Field

(In Mandarin;  English subtitles)

About the Director
Zhang Yang was born in Beijing, China in 1967. In 1992, he graduated from the Central Theatre Academy. He then directed a theatrical production of Kiss of the Spider Woman and went on to direct over twenty underground music videos. His first feature film, Spicy Love Soup, swept the domestic Chinese awards and his second feature, Shower, won the FIPRESCI prize at the Toronto International Film Festival. Getting Home is his fifth feature film.