A story of long awaited love is always touching. Director Zhang Yimou’s Coming Home, adapted from Geling Yan’s novel, The Criminal Lu Yanshi, tells a story of true love. During the Cultural Revolution, professor Lu Yanshi is branded a liberal thinker and sent to a labor camp. He escapes from the camp and returns to his way home, only to be captured again when his daughter, Dandan, blinded by her ambition, gives him away. After a long imprisonment and at end of the revolution, Lu Yanshi comes back home. But his dear wife, Feng Wanyu, doesn’t recognize him. He does everything to help her regain her memory, but fails. Instead, he decides to remain silently by her side because Feng Wanyu’s loss of memory might due to the trauma of helplessly watching her husband dragged away to camp and her inability to forgive her daughter. As a reunion of the world acclaimed director Zhang and Gong Li, this stirring film fully meets the high expectation and with the outstanding performances by Gong Li and Chen Daoming, the film is even more beautiful and heartbreaking. (KIM Ji-seok)