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China · 2015
1h 52m
Director Peng Sanyuan
Starring Andy Lau, Jing Boran, Ni Jingyang, Wang Zhifei
Genre Drama
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Inspired by true events, this film follows Lei, a man who has spent over a decade searching for his missing son. Lei teams up with Zeng Shuai, an auto mechanic who was himself abducted as a child, and the two journey across China to find their long-lost family members.
The Hollywood Reporter by Clarence Tsui
Lee's eye for everyday Chinese life - whether in isolated rural villages or among aggrieved laborers on fish farms - compensates for the film's minimal commentary on the larger social trauma brought about by human traffickers, and the stigma faced by their victims.
Screen International by Fionnuala Halligan
While there are admittedly some jarring notes, Lost And Love is an ambitious and assured debut, and sounds a note for Peng as a name to watch.
Notwithstanding some sentimental beats, Peng achieves a delicate balance between bleak realities and a life-affirming attitude, capped by a predictable but necessary catharsis.
Los Angeles Times by Martin Tsai
By ambitiously aiming to encompass the full scope and complexity of the social pandemic, Lost and Love winds up being all over the map.
The New York Times by Nicolas Rapold
Lost and Love (“Lost Orphan” in the original Chinese title) confronts serious problems but is too busy reaching for epic sweep and soaring moments to nail the fine detail of main characters’ fraught give-and-take.
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