Home Coming 万里归途 China, 2022, colour, 2.35:1, 137 mins. Director: Rao Xiaozhi 饶晓志. Rating: 7/10. Visually impressive but emotionally rather cool drama of Chinese workers evacuated from a war-torn Arab country. STORY Numia, a country in the Arab world, 19 Feb 2015. With violent demonstrations against the president and the country plunged into civil war, … Continue reading Review: Home Coming (2022) →
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