A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007)

It is so refreshing to see a director (Wayne Wang) so courageously has his audience go through watching and listening to conversations in mixed dialogues accentuating the “human relationships and communications” that goes beyond common language!

There is an understand that masterfully is being established during the movie, interestingly enough, the old man (Henry O) fails to establish this with his daughter, but it is being established with the audience, “with subtitles at times.” Then the climax, the scenes/conversations in the park between an Iranian old woman (Vida Ghahremani) and the Chinese old man (Henry O) in mixed dialogues, Mandarin, Farsi, and English, “with No sub titles!” which at the same time, is fluent, enticing and absolutely delightful.

This is an amazingly smart and fascinating movie with masterful acting, specially the old couple, the Iranian old woman (Vida Ghahremani) and the Chinese old man (Henry O).

Warning: if you are looking for an Action or Kong Fu movie, this may not be your top choice.