Comments on: Ke tu qiu hen (1990) https://rarefilmm.com/2018/05/ke-tu-qiu-hen-1990/ The Cave of Forgotten Films Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:00:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.1 By: Øivind https://rarefilmm.com/2018/05/ke-tu-qiu-hen-1990/#comment-99122 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:37:07 +0000 http://rarefilmm.com/?p=3247#comment-99122 I enjoyed it even more on the 2nd viewing.

I don’t know if this film has been released on blu-ray but the low image quality on this version presumably ripped from a DVD (VCD?) just adds to the mood strangely enough. In that sense it’s far more preferable than it being ruined by the overuse of DNR-technology which Criterion has had a tendency to do in recent years

]]> By: SAUMITRA SARKAR https://rarefilmm.com/2018/05/ke-tu-qiu-hen-1990/#comment-85894 Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:46:34 +0000 http://rarefilmm.com/?p=3247#comment-85894 A beautiful cinema that explores cross-cultural generations, featuring a scarce and unique subject matter ~ simple in exterior but very complex and multi-layered. Thanks for uploading.

]]> By: David Dunn https://rarefilmm.com/2018/05/ke-tu-qiu-hen-1990/#comment-58074 Sun, 18 Aug 2024 14:12:43 +0000 http://rarefilmm.com/?p=3247#comment-58074 If there are perhaps hundreds of millions of dysfunctional families in the world, Ann Hui’s “Song of the Exile” does the genre proud. The film, in sometimes punishing detail, examines the relationship between a status obsessed mother who regards her beautiful educated daughter like a rich man his trophy wife. Both accuse the other of neglect and indifference. In the after math of the brutal Sino-Japanese war, mother and daughter move back to Japan where the latter gradually learns of the events that shaped her mother = 4.5 stars.

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