Shower Reviews

Don't miss this film!

I absolutely loved this film. Having read quite a bit about the last 100 years of Chinese history, then visiting last November to see the state of the country, I was pleasantly surprised at 'Shower's' invitation to peek into the intimacy between the family members and their small community.

This film made me smile from the beginning to the end. It's delightful, moving, and sensitively portrays one of China's most delicate dilemmas today - the generation gap between the 20-somethings and their parents.

I heartily encourage you to take the time to see it - it's well worth it!

A really likeable film!

Entertaining, moving and funny in equal measure.

This is a very pleasing film that gives the audience a look at some of the more forgotten effects of China's increasing modernity.

A film almost impossible not to like.

Beautiful film

I thoroughly enjoyed this film it was a gentle slice-of-life film with a difference. The actors were excellent, the story was moving and amusing, everything about it was superb.

The prodigal son returns to find his father and retarded brother living and working happily in the bath-house they run. He is reluctant to stay, no longer fits in, yet somehow, the customers and his family exert their influence on him. When the whole neighbourhood is threatened with demolition and his father becomes ill, it falls upon him to look after his brother.

I don't want to spoil it by saying any more, but I recommend this film to people who like something a little more gentle and amusing sometimes.

Simple but effective

Spend a little time with this film and you soon wish you lived round the corner from the bath house it depicts. If you like Chinese cinema in the seemingly laid back but actually a bit of an emotional rollercoaster type of style then you'll love this.

Interesting

I found this film surprisingly interesting and perhaps because of the original subject matter, despite the hammy acting, it is very watchable.

makes you want to go there

Good insight into Chinese culture. Well worth a watch.

It made me wet

lovable characters, and a good natured storyline make this a top quality feel good film. Brings back my faith in human nature.

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Endearing

Nice humble little film set in a suburb of China. The acting was a bit wooden but it was quite believable, touching in moments and inspirational in others. Two characters setting their pet crickets against each other added to the homely style of the film.

No fast action, slow paced and at times peculiar owing to the jump to another land suddenly, which was not fully explained, and spoiled the totality of the film

Worth watching however, really lovely ending......one of those feel good films

a chinese feelgood film

This is a moving, often funny social drama about a Chinese community centred around an old bathhouse run by a father and his learning disabled son. It reflects on how times are inevitably changing in China. It is beautifully acted and shot. Not for anyone who dislikes subtitles or wants lots of action

Lovely!

Really enjoyable film. Nothing spectacular occurrs but even the most general happenings in a bath house in a small Chinese town are going to be interesting for an English veiwer This film includes mental disability, death and relationship breakdowns but all is done in a light and endearing way. Strangely uplifting.