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Director-writer-producer-star Chen Kaige--well known for his visually sumptuous tales of historical China (FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE)--directs this sweet-natured coming of age tale set in modern day Beijing. An impoverished cook, Liu Chen (Liu Peiqui), gives up his provincial life to move his 13-year-old violin virtuoso son, .. Read more

Starring Chen Hong, Tang Yun, Peiqi Liu
Director Chen Kaige
Genres Drama, World Cinema

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Together With You

Director-writer-producer-star Chen Kaige--well known for his visually sumptuous tales of historical China (FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE)--directs this sweet-natured coming of age tale set in modern day Beijing. An impoverished cook, Liu Chen (Liu Peiqui), gives up his provincial life to move his 13-year-old violin virtuoso son, Xiaochun (Tang Yun), to Beijing so that he can audition for a prestigious music school. Once in the crowded industrial city Liu is bewildered by the big money and corruption and Xiaochun is forced to learn about the perils of the real world and the high stress of competitive classical music training from Professor Tiang (Wang Zhiwen), a cynical and eccentric music teacher. While Liu struggles as a lowly food delivery man, Xiaochun blossoms as a musician, but also as a modern day teenager, full of confusion and desire. His desire is provoked by their neighbour, Lili (Chen Hong--Chen Kaige's wife), a high-class call girl whose love of money and power masks a pure heart that tenderly cares for the young boy. With dreams of his son's potential, Liu hires a second teacher, Professor Yu (played by Chen Kaige), who is a slick and ruthless starmaker. Finally, Xiaochun must decide whether his dreams are the same as his father's, in this moving tale set to an eloquent classical music soundtrack.

Starring Chen Hong, Tang Yun, Peiqi Liu
Director Chen Kaige
Studio MOMENTUM PICTURES
Run time DVD: 1 hr 54 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate PG.gif
Genres Drama, World Cinema
Language Mandarin
Released DVD: 12 Apr 2004
Production year: 2002
Format DVD

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    Music has been an important feature of Chen Kaige's films since Life on a String. Yet, despite this Beijing melodrama turning around a provincial peasant who sacrifices all so that his son can study the violin, the unforced sincerity and acute insight of his early work continues to elude a director caught between China's dramatic socio-economic transformation and his own international art house celebrity. However, this is a vast improvement on the dismal Killing Me Softly, with Liu Peiqi and Tang Yun charmingly credible as proud father and teenage prodigy, while Wang Zhiwen and Chen Hong provide genial support as an eccentric genius and a good-time girl with a conscience.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • "...Feel-good and heartwarming - [the performances are] a delight..."

    • Empire
    • Posted 11 Mar 2005

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  • 9 out of 9 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Chinese insight at Abandonmnt & Adoption

    This is a quirky yet sensitive tale of a Father who nurtures the talent of a child that he finds on a train who has been abandoned. Never telling the boy the story the father moves to the big city to scarifice all he has and almost who he is for the benefit of his son. Very touching.

      • tlahwright from Carlisle
      • Posted 28 Oct 2004 22:51

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  • 6 out of 6 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Charming

    What a gorgeous little film this is! Simple peasant takes his vioin-prodigy son to Beijing where he hopes the boy will improve and advance. The boy has a crush on their beautiful neighbour. As he progresses, through the hard work of his father's stage-motherish pushiness, things change, dynamics change, and secrets are revealed. The wonderful classical music is occasionally interspersed with traditional Chinese music. Both are exquisite. The performances of all main characters are superb - you can't help but love the scruffy peasant whose heart is gold, and this brilliant but typical young lad. Thoroughly enjoyable without being in any way pretentious or 'arty'.

      • Jackie C from Worthing, W Sussex
      • Posted 02 Jun 2005 22:57

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