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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is a 2007 American drama film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Faye Yu, Henry O, Vida Ghahremani and Pasha D. Lychnikoff. It is adapted from the short story by Yiyun Li and shot on a high-end high-definition video camera.
Plot
The film follows Mr. Shi (Henry O), a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan (Faye Yu), who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However Yilan is not interested. She tries keeping an emotional distance but when this finally fails she begins physically avoiding her father. He confronts her about an affair with a married Russian man (Pasha D. Lychnikoff) and she, in turn, lets loose about all the gossip she'd heard as a young girl about his alleged affair with a female colleague back in China.
Cast
More details
author | Yiyun Li |
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director | Wayne Wang |
editor | Deirdre Slevin |
genre | drama |
keywords | beijing divorce father and daughter faye yu iran iranian revolution librarian married meet park bench pasha d. lychnikoff retire retirement home revolution russian man talk understand vida ghahremani wash young girl |
musicBy | Lesley Barber |
producer | Rich Cowan Wayne Wang Yukie Kito |
publisher | The Match Factory |