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The Home Song Stories

Singapore, Australia

2007

103 Min
Color
2.35:1
Cantonese, Mandarin, English
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DIR Tony Ayres

EXEC Wouter Barendrecht, Liz Koops, Michael Werner, Daniel Yun

PROD Michael McMahon, Liz Watts

SCR Tony Ayres

DP Nigel Bluck

CAST Joan Chen, Yuwu Qi, Joel Lok, Irene Chen, Steven Vidler, Kerry Walker

ED Denise Haratzis

PROD DES Melinda Doring

MUSIC Antony Partos

Synopsis

Rose, a Shanghainese songstress singing at nightclubs in HongKong during the 60’s, marries an Australian sailor and migrates with her young son and daughter to Melbourne. Her past filled with lost innocence, she begins a cycle of dependence and desperation to create a family for herself and her children, culminating with her affair with Qi, an illegal immigrant from HongKong. Watched through the eyes of her young son, the mother’s journey reveals painful truths about the human condition, the love of family and self, and the price we pay for growing up. —paradisofilms.eu

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THE HOME SONG STORIES Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
The Home Song Stories made its debut at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, and I’ve waited a long time for it to come to our shores. A joint Singapore-Australian production, it’s an autobiographical
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THE HOME SONG STORIES Review

By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
The Home Song Stories made its debut at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, and I’ve waited a long time for it to come to our shores. A joint Singapore-Australian production, it’s an autobiographical
read on Twitchfilm.net

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