Must Watch masterpiece.brilliant acting by zhang and gong li.my favourite chinease movie of all time.gives a nice feeling to our hearts and tells how to live when any crisis happend in our life.every single characters familiar when we have these type of life.Providing an absorbing meditation on familial relationships set against a unique backdrop, this manages to elaborate upon its central theme of the human cost of political upheaval with an engaging blend of intimacy, humour and genuine emotional substance