Footprints of Change

A patient, sweeping look at a century of ordinary lives pouring through one building, quietly moving and rich with the ache of time passing.

Created by

Zhang Silin

Genres

Drama

Starring

Tong Yao, Cheng Lei, Liu Yijun

Overview

Set in a Western-style house in Shanghai's French Concession, the film spans decades of change. Once home to the Lin family, the house is transformed into a maternity hospital in the 1930s, then a factory in the 1950s after the founding of the People's Republic of China. By the 1990s, it becomes a mixed-use building, with each era bringing new stories of the people passing through its doors.

How it feels

Melancholic, earnest, warm and tense. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Memory, family, aging, class

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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