Wednesday, March 11, 7:00 pm

Student Union Movie Theater, UNC Charlotte Main Campus

归途列车 / Last Train Home

Director Lixin Fan

China, 2010, 85 min

In Chinese, Sichuan dialect, with English subtitles

 Sponsored by the Chinese Club

Introduction by TBA

Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year’s holiday. This mass exodus is the world’s largest human migration—an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future.

Reviews:

“Beautifully shot, haunting and haunted…about an astonishing migration involving 130 million Chinese workers who each year travel by train, boat and foot to return home for New Year’s.” – Manohla Dargis, THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Fascinating! Epic in scale, but intimate in focus and unforgettable overall!” –Andrew O’Hehir, SALON

“That Last Train Home balances such impeccable compositions with its cultural context and humanistic content, however, is damn near a miracle…The film’s ability to switch from a macro survey of a phenomenon to a micro case study hammers its point home. This is what capitalism has done to the country; here’s how it’s damaged the family unit.”- David Fear, TIMEOUT

Social Media Links: Last Train Home on YouTube

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1512201/