Coming Home Again

Name: Coming Home Again
Genre: Drama
Released: October 23, 2020
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Christina July Kim, Jackie Chung, John Lie, Justin Chon, Leesa Kim

2020

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Outsider Pictures | Release Date: October 23, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Christina July Kim, Jackie Chung, John Lie, Justin Chon, Leesa Kim

Summary: A Korean American man takes care of his sick mother as she teaches him her traditional recipes.

Director: Wayne Wang

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 86 min

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RogerEbert.com Carlos Aguilar

Oct 23, 2020

Amid the trauma that the co-leads undergo, Wang examines the rips and repairs in the connecting tissue between us and the people who, through their action or inaction, mold us into who we are. Read full review

IndieWire Ryan Lattanzio

Oct 23, 2020

Chiseled as a haiku, director Wayne Wang’s Coming Home Again opens a window onto dying days in all their ugliness, but also onto their possibility of redemption for a mother and son. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Oct 23, 2020

The restrained, austere filmmaking of the latest picture from Wayne Wang belies the emotional depth of this sober picture. Read full review

Kevin Crust

Oct 27, 2020

Sometimes when the moment comes to reconcile our feelings, we freeze or fumble the opportunity; other times, when we finally process the emotions and can articulate the thoughts, it is too late to communicate them. Coming Home Again, sweetly, sometimes painfully, evokes this experience. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Oct 23, 2020

Wang — using a direct, unadorned shooting style — along with his cast (Justin Chon, who’s been around for some time, makes a strong impression as Chang-rae) put them across with unusual integrity. Read full review

Tomris Laffly

Oct 23, 2020

While this is not exactly a premise with mass appeal, Wang’s movie is still an unassuming exercise, defiantly in contrast to Hollywood’s typically over-sentimental terminal illness fare. Read full review

Deborah Young

Oct 23, 2020

It’s a far cry from dreary or depressing, but it also doesn’t offer any easy way to enter its emotional territory. Viewers who have gone through the experience of taking care of an ailing parent or relative may identify more fully with the slow-moving story. Read full review

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Brent_Marchant

Nov 12, 2020

I kept waiting for something to grab onto that would bring out the empathy in me in this tale of caregiving in the face of impending loss. Yet usually-reliable director Wayne Wang never really delivers on this point. Instead the filmmaker gives us a sincere but ultimately thin, rote premiseI kept waiting for something to grab onto that would bring out the empathy in me in this tale of caregiving in the face of impending loss. Yet usually-reliable director Wayne Wang never really delivers on this point. Instead the filmmaker gives us a sincere but ultimately thin, rote premise whose narrative is stretched to the limit, padded with interminably pregnant pauses, artfully photographed sequences (mostly of cooking) shot in stark silence and ample inconsequential dialogue that could easily have been cut. While the performances are generally impressive, much of what the ensemble has been asked to do comes up lacking in terms of evoking viewer engagement and bringing meaning to what's going on in the hearts and minds of the characters. This offering feels like it could have given audiences so much more but, regrettably, fails to do so.… Expand

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