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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

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2007 · 83 min Drama
6.0 / 10 · TMDB

The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries keeping an emotional distance but when this finally fails she begins physically avoiding her father. He confronts her about an affair with a married Russian man and she, in turn, lets loose about all the gossip she'd heard as a young girl about his alleged affair with a female colleague back in China.

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Year 2007
Country United States of America
Genre Drama
Director Wayne Wang
Runtime 83 min.
Rating TMDB: 6.0/10 (25 votes)

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Director Wayne Wang constructs the drama on minimalism and pauses, relying on the camera as a dispassionate observer of a familial vacuum. The film explores the chasm between generations, widened by cultural and geographic distance, where silence speaks louder than any confrontation.

What lingers after the credits is a quiet, aching truth about the unbridgeable loneliness that can exist within the closest bonds. It's a poignant study of missed connections and the weight of the unsaid. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Wayne Wang

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On a quiet evening, free from distraction, to absorb every nuanced silence and glance.

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