The seventh film in this season's Maryknoll International Film Festival will showcase "The Road Home." Created in China during 1999 and directed by Zhang Yimou, "The Road Home" is the story about a country girl and a young teacher who fall in love. The teacher's death many years later brings the couple's son back from the big city for the funeral.
The film begins in black and white in present-day China when the son returns home. His mother insists upon following the tradition of carrying the coffin back to their remote village by foot so that her husband's spirit will remember its way home. As the narrator, the son recounts the story of his parents' courtship, so famous that it has gained the status of a legend in the village. It is here the bleak black and white turns into vivid colors as the story shifts to the past.
Date: Friday, March 21, 2014.
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Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers Mission Center, 55 Ryder Road, Ossining, New York 10562.
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Admission is free and all are welcome.
Contact: For directions, call 914-941-7636 ext. 2670, or visit www.maryknollsociety.org/travel
