2019 TIFF Movie Review: SO LONG, MY SON (China 2019) ***** Top 10

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Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.

A three-hour film that though a little slow moving is so captivating a watch that no one will notice the time flying past.  Director Wang (11 FLOWERS) deals with the intimacy of 2 dysfunctional families in the setting of China’s one child nation. 

 The theme of the film is clearly guilt.  Guilt is piled upon guilt upon guilt and no character in the film is spared from this human fallacy.   The story deals with a married couple coming to terms with the untimely death of their young son in addition to the rapidly changing foundations of Chinese society. 

 The drama unfolds in a decade-spanning…

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