A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

With the quiet, understated "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers," Wayne Wang has come full circle, returning to the small, intimate films like "Chan Is Missing," "Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart" and "Eat a Bowl of Tea" that established the Hong Kong-born Chinese American writer-director, best known for his deft screen adaptation of "The Joy Luck Club.

“A Thousand Years of Good Prayers” is a gentle, pleasantly unrushed piece of moviemaking. There's a tonic simplicity to how it gets the job done, and if the film comes off as fairly conventional stuff, it nevertheless succeeds on its own modest, middlebrow terms. Directed by Wayne Wang (“The Joy Luck Club”) from a screenplay adapted by Yiyun Li from her own short story, “A Thousand Years” stars Henry [...] Vai alla recensione »