Back to Love 带你去见我妈 China, 2022, colour, 2.35:1, 100 mins. Director: Lan Hongchun 蓝鸿春. Rating: 6/10. Second dialect feature by Chaozhou director Lan Hongchun has the same easygoing style and smalltown family background. STORY Shantou city, Guangdong province, coastal southern China, the present day. Xian (Zhong Shaoxian) runs a sidestreet duck-meat shop; at home she … Continue reading Review: Back to Love (2022) →
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