There is one scene in this film where the dad is explaining to his family about his own father’s cure for constipation. It involved a chopstick and a sugary mixture. Are you envisaging now what I was a few hours ago? Eye watering stuff and an example of the kind of conversational dialogue we follow from this family as they spend a few days together. The cast consists of the director (Jiayin Liu) and her real parents Huifen Jai (mum) and Zaiping Liu (dad) and they live in a tiny flat in Beijing - that might as well have been a cave; supplementing their meagre income by turning ox hides into lux…
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