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Apart Together (2010)
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Apart Together (2010)
Original name: 团圆
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Liu returns to his native city Shanghai after 50 years spent in Taiwan. He has come to find the first love of his life, Qiao, who he left behind pregnant. In the meantime, Qiao has married and formed a family. But Liu is determined to get the family's approval to take her away with him.
Style: atmospheric, touching, emotional, realistic, captivating, epic, serious, gloomy
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love affair, redemption, lovers reunited, homecoming, politics, soldier, elderly, aging, political unrest, hopes, unfulfillment, family relations, society, military, love and romance, elderly lovers, unfulfilled love, bittersweet, state affairs, golden years
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 21st century, 40s, contemporary
Place: taiwan, china, asia

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Duration: 95 min.
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