Swan Song

A quiet, chaptered chronicle of political pressure eroding a family, watching history reshape private lives with melancholy patience.

Directed by

Zhang Zeming

Genres

Drama

Starring

Chen Rui, Xianzhu Kong

Overview

Swan song with a chapter like structure, spans many years from the onset of the Cultural Revolution to the 'open door' policies of the late seventies and eighties. The focus is on how off screen national events impact on individual lives, here, those of an elderly composer with an opium habit who is in constant political trouble with the authorities and his son who dissociates himself from his father.

How it feels

Melancholic, tense and dark. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Politics, family, addiction, betrayal

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

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

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