Life After Life

Industrial development and the migration of population have seen the gradual desolation of a Chinese village with few people left and houses collapsed. Some people die, and some ghosts return. Xiuying’s spirit who has wandered for over a decade returns to the village by borrowing her son’s body. She wants to move the tree she planted in her husband’s family yard when she got married.
The impact of China’s industrialization on rural families simmers in the background of this stylized, dreamlike tale of reincarnation and relocation, produced by leading Chinese auteur Jia Zhang-ke.
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