A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

2007

Drama

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 79% · 39 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 55% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 1192 1.2K

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Plot summary

The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries keeping an emotional distance but when this finally fails she begins physically avoiding her father. He confronts her about an affair with a married Russian man and she, in turn, lets loose about all the gossip she'd heard as a young girl about his alleged affair with a female colleague back in China.

Director

Wayne Wang Photo
Wayne Wang

Top cast

Pasha D. Lychnikoff Photo
Pasha D. Lychnikoff as Boris
Angela Dierdorff Petro Photo
Angela Dierdorff Petro as Maggie
Brian Gibbons Photo
Brian Gibbons as elder Leach
Feihong Yu Photo
Feihong Yu as Yilan
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763.89 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
Seeds 30
1.38 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
Seeds 74

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jotix100 7 / 10

Generation gap

Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 6 / 10

Pointless Family Drama that Goes Nowhere

The retired rocket scientist Mr. Kun Shi (Henry O) arrives in the United States of America to visit his daughter Yilan (Feihong Yu), who moved twelve years ago from China to America with her husband Keming and now is divorced. Mr. Shi tries to approach to his estranged daughter and expect to help her to find another husband. Meanwhile he befriends an Iranian old lady (Vida Ghahremani) in a park, and despite their language barrier and difficulties, they meet each other everyday. When Mr. Shi sees his daughter with the Russian Boris (Pasha D. Lychnikoff) late night, they finally have a honest conversation with each other."A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" is a pointless family drama that goes nowhere. The story has a promising beginning with the encounter of an old Chinese with his estranged daughter and with an Iranian woman, but the plot and subplots are not well resolved and are cold and emotionless. Maybe if I had had a lesser expectation, I could have liked this little film more. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Mil Anos de Orações" ("A Thousand Years of Prayers")
Reviewed by intelearts 8 / 10

Stark but touching: the epitome of a small film done well

1000 years is a small film built on a simple premise: a Chinese father visits his daughter. He is nearing the end of life and the film is at all times reflective and quiet. His daughter is recovering from a bad divorce and they have never felt close. He arrives in America feeling alienated and the film centers around themes of reaching out and alienation. He makes friends in the park with an Farsi woman - they don't share language, but they share communication.Of course, the journey they all take is in their conversations and silences is the film.If that doesn't sound like your cup of tea then you won't enjoy this: however if you can let this wash over you it is surprisingly involving and beautifully rendered.It is film for the mature, the small gestures and meanings of the words in different languages hold meanings within meaning but there is something implicitly human on display here.Shot in natural tones with a washed out feel to it the cinematography lends much.One to be savored and strongly reminiscent of Swedish cinema this is real film in one sense, but it fails in being too staged in places.All in all a small film that will appeal to those who enjoy reality in film.
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