Lost and Love

Name: Lost and Love
Genre: Drama
Released: March 20, 2015
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 52

2015

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China Lion | Release Date: March 20, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: After losing his two-year-old son, Lei Zekuan (Andy Lau) begins a fourteen-year-long quest in search of his missing child. On the road, he makes a stop at a repair shop where he comes across a young repairman, Zeng Shuai (Jing Boran), who was also kidnapped at the age of four. Robbed of the life he was meant to live, Zeng can only vaguelyAfter losing his two-year-old son, Lei Zekuan (Andy Lau) begins a fourteen-year-long quest in search of his missing child. On the road, he makes a stop at a repair shop where he comes across a young repairman, Zeng Shuai (Jing Boran), who was also kidnapped at the age of four. Robbed of the life he was meant to live, Zeng can only vaguely remember snippets of home - a chain-link bridge, bamboo trees, and his mother's long braids. These two lost souls forge an unlikely friendship and, in the face of a hopelessness and despair, inspire courage and perseverance in one another. [China Lion]… Expand

Director: Sanyuan Peng

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 108 min

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Fionnuala Halligan

Mar 19, 2015

While there are admittedly some jarring notes, Lost And Love is an ambitious and assured debut, and sounds a note for Peng as a name to watch. Read full review

Maggie Lee

Mar 18, 2015

Notwithstanding some sentimental beats, Peng achieves a delicate balance between bleak realities and a life-affirming attitude, capped by a predictable but necessary catharsis. Read full review

Clarence Tsui

Mar 18, 2015

Lee's eye for everyday Chinese life - whether in isolated rural villages or among aggrieved laborers on fish farms - compensates for the film's minimal commentary on the larger social trauma brought about by human traffickers, and the stigma faced by their victims. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

Mar 19, 2015

Lost and Love (“Lost Orphan” in the original Chinese title) confronts serious problems but is too busy reaching for epic sweep and soaring moments to nail the fine detail of main characters’ fraught give-and-take. Read full review

Martin Tsai

Mar 20, 2015

By ambitiously aiming to encompass the full scope and complexity of the social pandemic, Lost and Love winds up being all over the map. Read full review

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