A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is a 2007 drama feature film directed by Wayne Wang starring Faye Yu, Henry O, Vida Ghahremani and Pasha D. Lychnikoff, adapted from the short story by Yiyun Li and shot on a highend highdefinition video camera.

The film follows Mr. Shi Henry O, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan Faye Yu, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However Yilan is not interested. She tries keeping an emotional distance but when this finally fails she begins physically avoiding her father. He confronts her about an affair with a married Russian man Pasha D. Lychnikoff and she, in turn, lets loose about all the gossip shed heard as a young girl about his alleged affair with a female colleague back in China.Running parallel to this plot is Mr. Shis park bench meetings with an elderly woman, Madam Vida Ghahremani, who had fled to the United States from Iran after the revolution. Neither Mr. Shi nor Madam speak English well, but by gesturing and talking in their own tongues, they start a friendship which ends when Madam is put into a retirement home. ........

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