The Home Song Stories
Every Family Has a Story to Hide
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: E1 Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Joan Chen | |
Performer: | Qi Yuwu & Steven Vidler | |
Directed by | Tony Ayres | |
Edited by | Denise Haratzis | |
Screenwriting by | Tony Ayres | |
Composition by | Antony Partos | |
Director of Photography: | Nigel Bluck |
Entertainment Reviews:
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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 2,458
My favourite Australian film of the year so far ... a cathartic memoir, a love story and a tribute to his unfathomable butterfly mother.
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Urban Cinefile
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Whether you walk out of the theater hating, loving, or sympathizing for the director's mother, Stories succeeds in enabling you to see through the eyes of an angry, confused little boy
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Filmcritic.com
Rating: 3.5/5 --
At its core, The Home Song Stories evokes painful memories, but also brings about the notion of forgiveness, remembering and honouring those memories.
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ScreenAnarchy
Rating: 3.5/5 --
A finely chiseled drama about an unstable Chinese mother struggling to reconcile her desires with her children's needs in early '70s Australia, The Home Song Stories speaks bittersweet truths about life in the Chinese diaspora.
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Variety