Gui lai (2014) had its international premiere at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival in the out of competition section. It was scheduled to be screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
On Rotten Tomatoes, Gui lai (2014) has a rating of 89% based on 80 reviews, with an average rating of 7.6/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "The rare tear-jerking melodrama with sociopolitical subtext, Coming Home plucks the heartstrings with thought-provoking power." According to Metacritic, which sampled 21 critics and calculated a weighted average score of 81 out of 100, the film received "universal acclaim."
Gui lai (2014) (Chinese: Gui lai, or 'The Return') is a 2014 Chinese historical romantic drama film directed by Yimou Zhang and starring Daoming Chen, Gong Li, and Huiwen Zhang. It was released in the US on September 11, 2015, and first shown to the public on the May 20, 2014, at the Cannes Film Festival. The story is adapted from the novel 'The Criminal Lu Yanshi' written by novelist Geling Yan.