To Live
starring: You Ge, Li Gong, Ben Niu, Xiao Cong, Deng Fei
directed by: Yimou Zhang
directed by: Yimou Zhang
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Fugui & jiazhen endure tumultuous events in china as they move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. They raise a family & survive managing to live from the 40s to the 70s in this epic but personal story of life through an amazing period.Studio: Tcfhe/mgmRelease Date: 07/24/2007Run time: 133 minutesRating: Nr
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One of the best films of 1994, To Live is a bold, energetic masterpiece from Zhang Yimou, the foremost director from China's influential "fifth generation" of filmmakers. Continuing his brilliant collaboration with China's best-known actress Gong Li (their previous films include Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern), Zhang weaves an ambitious tapestry of personal and political events, following the struggles of an impoverished husband and wife (Ge You, Gong Li) from their heyday in the 1940s to the hardships that accompanied the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. They raise two children amidst a Communist regime, surviving numerous setbacks and yet managing, somehow, to live. Both intimate and epic, Zhang's film encompasses the simplest and most profound realities of Chinese life during this controversial period, and for their honesty, Zhang and Gong Li faced a two-year ban on future collaborations. To Live is a testament to their art, transcending politics to celebrate the tenacity of ordinary people in the wake of turbulent history. --Jeff Shannon
Fugui & jiazhen endure tumultuous events in china as they move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. They raise a family & survive managing to live from the 40s to the 70s in this epic but personal story of life through an amazing period.Studio: Tcfhe/mgmRelease Date: 07/24/2007Run time: 133 minutesRating: Nr
Amazon.com:
One of the best films of 1994, To Live is a bold, energetic masterpiece from Zhang Yimou, the foremost director from China's influential "fifth generation" of filmmakers. Continuing his brilliant collaboration with China's best-known actress Gong Li (their previous films include Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern), Zhang weaves an ambitious tapestry of personal and political events, following the struggles of an impoverished husband and wife (Ge You, Gong Li) from their heyday in the 1940s to the hardships that accompanied the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. They raise two children amidst a Communist regime, surviving numerous setbacks and yet managing, somehow, to live. Both intimate and epic, Zhang's film encompasses the simplest and most profound realities of Chinese life during this controversial period, and for their honesty, Zhang and Gong Li faced a two-year ban on future collaborations. To Live is a testament to their art, transcending politics to celebrate the tenacity of ordinary people in the wake of turbulent history. --Jeff Shannon
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- A Window into Communist China
"To Live" is an outstanding film directed by the talented Chinese director Zhang Yimou.The film chronicles the lives of a married couple, Fugui and Jiazhen, from the 1940s, prior to the Communist takeover, to the 1970s in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution.Despite many heartbreaking hardships, they remain committed to each other and to their family.The film gave me as a Westerner an instructive introduction to modern Chinese history through the life experience of this family.It also ... Read More
Rating: - To Live and to Teach
I watched this film when it first came out and again recently.It is a sweeping, yet personal representation of the suffering of the chinese people during the second half of the 20c.Though the film maker needed to disguise the horror of many episodes in the lives of his characters behind humor or overly gentle portrayal, it does not take much to see past this to the real messages of the film.I watched the film with my 7th grade class.They were deeply moved and were given images to attach to ... Read More
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- Sobering epic movie
This was a very good movie. I had seen it before and second time around it was even better.
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- Not an American Civil War film
What is this film doing in the American Civil War categorie?It has absolutly no business being here because it deals with the Chinese revolution.
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- finding the life of love.....
most ofthe world of asian life is totally love of the family.in this movie " to live"tells it all,no matter how tuff the life falls uponyou.the more love you carrythe stronger you are.theintenational film makers, are showing the world.
- A Window into Communist China"To Live" is an outstanding film directed by the talented Chinese director Zhang Yimou.The film chronicles the lives of a married couple, Fugui and Jiazhen, from the 1940s, prior to the Communist takeover, to the 1970s in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution.Despite many heartbreaking hardships, they remain committed to each other and to their family.The film gave me as a Westerner an instructive introduction to modern Chinese history through the life experience of this family.It also ... Read More
- To Live and to TeachI watched this film when it first came out and again recently.It is a sweeping, yet personal representation of the suffering of the chinese people during the second half of the 20c.Though the film maker needed to disguise the horror of many episodes in the lives of his characters behind humor or overly gentle portrayal, it does not take much to see past this to the real messages of the film.I watched the film with my 7th grade class.They were deeply moved and were given images to attach to ... Read More
- Sobering epic movieThis was a very good movie. I had seen it before and second time around it was even better.
- Not an American Civil War filmWhat is this film doing in the American Civil War categorie?It has absolutly no business being here because it deals with the Chinese revolution.
- finding the life of love.....most ofthe world of asian life is totally love of the family.in this movie " to live"tells it all,no matter how tuff the life falls uponyou.the more love you carrythe stronger you are.theintenational film makers, are showing the world.
