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Movie poster: The Reunions (2021)
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The Reunions

2021 · 75 min Drama
7.2 / 10 · TMDB

Rework on Dong Chengpeng's previous award winning short "A Final Reunion". A comedy director has come up with an idea of breaking through his common filmmaking take by shooting a short film about how his grandmother would have spent on the New Year's day, crews recruited, the protagonist on set, everyone ready in the rural remote country where he was born and raised while out of everyone's expectation, the grandma passed. The movie has to go on, hence the narrative metamorphosizes from here... You can't always get what you want, as a storyteller, he leads the whole crew into another diverged yet moving journey.

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📋 Film Details

Original Title 吉祥如意
Year 2021
Country China
Genre Drama
Director Dong Chengpeng
Runtime 75 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.2/10 (25 votes)

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🎬 MovieFinder's Take

The film constructs a fragile bridge between personal grief and the creative act, relying on meta-cinematic reflection. It explores how reality intrudes upon artifice, forcing a narrative to transform before our eyes.

What lingers after is the raw, unresolved feeling of life refusing to follow a script — a poignant meditation on family and memory. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Dong Chengpeng

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Watch in a quiet, contemplative setting to fully absorb its blurred lines between documentary and drama.

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