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Coming Home Again

2019

Justin Chon, Jackie Chung, Christina July Kim, Leesa Kim ...

Drama A Korean American man takes care of his sick mother as she teaches him her traditional recipes

	Media	Author	Review
		Ryan Lattanzio IndieWire	"[It] avoids all the genre’s cliches. Jackie Chung is devastating as a Korean matriarch battling cancer in this patient, Ozu-esque study of loss."
		Tomris Laffly Variety	"A small, (sometimes tediously) slow film with limited theatrical prospects but profound things to say about family and grief"
		Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"Wang — using a direct, unadorned shooting style — along with his cast (...) put [the scenes] across with unusual integrity."
		Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"A mother-son bond so delicately personal, it’s hard to enter (...) Viewers who have gone through the experience of taking care of an ailing parent or relative may identify more fully with the slow-moving story"
		Wendy Ide Screendaily	"The film gently explores the shared language of love between mother and son (...) The intimacy of the storytelling (...) means that the film could work equally effectively on a streaming platform as it does in the cinema"
		Kevin Crust Los Angeles Times	"[A] quiet, introspective drama (...) elegantly adapted by director Wayne Wang (...) Jackie Chung is heartbreaking (...) The film is oddly soothing in its formalism"

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