El regreso de las golondrinas

A couple are matched together for their families' convenience - abused and sickly woman, and put upon, hard-working man. Together they find a measure of happiness and belonging that was missing in their lives.

The movie is beautifully shot, with picturesque landscapes and the images of the shifting seasons. It is a slow film - really a slice of life. The actors played their characters very well.

Beyond the story, the movie left me with a sense of the difficulties of life in rural areas.

This is the story of an unlikely love in a world on the brink of extinction.

In a capitalist China, where the economy is growing at an astounding pace, there is no longer a place for peasants, who live self-sufficiently from what they produce, in the adobe houses they build and which the government subsidizes the demolition. They need to be moved to social neighborhoods, where the houses have balconies and lots of light. But as the protagonist rightly says, where do I put the donkey and the chickens?

The portrait of a rural China on the verge of extinction and the unlikely love between a couple of peasants, rejected by their families, who build a simple but happy life in the house they built with their own hands, from tireless work in the fields.

A poem to old China, which quickly disappears, at the mercy of speculators who drive BMWs and suck the blood out of peasants.

Everything the other reviewers have said. I would like to add that out of the many thousands of other films I have seen this is my second most admired (My favorite film is Matewan). Such a sad but profound story of the human condition. I cried heavily at the end. I can't understand why the Chinese government would ban such a masterful film because it's not going to prompt any meaningful actions by us peasants. The film only creates a human connection between the citizens from different parts of the world by showing us as essentially people, going about our lives as best we can. I would love this film to be promoted heavily in the west.

For most Chinese people living in big cities, we don't know much about what it's like to be liviing in rural China. On all social media platforms available in China mainland, we are infused with the knowledge that all the people are living happy lives. But this movie gives us a perfect glimpse into a kind of life that's totally different than ours.

When I was watching the movie, I saw many people leaving comments below. Many of them said they have similar experiences when they lived in rurual when they were young. I know many Chinese people are still struggling with basic needs, but I didn't know they need to struggle so hard. Seeing the couple in the movie living a humble life but still keeping their kind hearts makes me cherish my comfortable life more and even makes me want to be a kinder people

Many say the scene is somewhat exaggerating the real situation, but what makes it curious is that the movie is banned by the Chinese government. This made me believe more that maybe it is actually like in rural China. I have to say I believe the government is trying to make people's lives easier, but it doesn't mean depictions of the other side of a propserous China can't be shown to people.

It's National Day Holiday here in China right now. When I was searching for a movie available in movie theaters, I didn't have much options other than movies paying homage to the government.

Immensely ethereal scenes paired with a gut wrenching story. The story unravels like a cloth covering the true nature of a persons intentions slowly, but with an impact so strong, making you doubt, and question with great dissapointment the nature of the human behaviour. And in all of the chaos of greed two beacons shine throughout the movie...the two protagonists, the outcasts of the rotten society they've been brought up in...highlight the outmost beauty in human relationship. Youre always followed and reminded of the courage and the absoute humanitarian spirit of the couple and it makes you complete...Complete, for you need it if you want to make it to the ending.

By far the most humanitarian movie ive seen in a while.