Film Review: Hutong Days

June 20, 2008 The film's affectionate treatment of the universal theme of fatherhood will melt the hearts of a thirty-to-fortysomething child-rearing audience. Interior designer Zhao (Xin Boqin) and his wife are saving hard to swap their obsolete but charming room among the "hutongs" (alleys) for a high-rise apartment when he loses his job and savings overnight in a company fiasco. With his wife away on training for two months, he has to care for his son while adjusting to downsized circumstances as a cake courier.

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