Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
Schmaltzy, overlong and a bit tedious.
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China · 2019
2h 12m
Director Feng Xiaogang
Starring Huang Xuan, Yang Caiyu, Xu Fan, Lydia Peckham
Genre Drama, Romance
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In the wake of his wife's death, Dongfeng, a Chinese man living in New Zealand, travels through meaningful locations in their life to try to better understand her. Told with a number of flashbacks, this emotional, poignant romantic drama follows Dongfeng's journey to make peace with his loss.
Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
Schmaltzy, overlong and a bit tedious.
Schematic and manipulative as it is, as a kind of team-effort between the New Zealand Tourist Board and whatever the Chinese equivalent of Hallmark is, Only Cloud Knows is, in the moment, undeniably effective at jerking tears.
Only Cloud Knows doesn’t exactly reinvent the wheel as the catharsis of the final act hinges on revelations, but what could have been rather mournful instead becomes a poignant celebration of life thanks to Feng’s deft handling of patently sincere material.
RogerEbert.com by Simon Abrams
Sappy, slow, and mostly effective.
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