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“A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,” moves like the Yiyun Li short story it comes from, a visual poem about the lives of an aging Chinese father and his estranged daughter half a world away from home. The lingering effects of the Cultural Revolution, the failures of love, the light of late afternoon in the Pacific Northwest: This is what director Wayne Wang (”The Joy Luck Club”) shows us while we wait for a story to develop. Unfortunately, the train literally leaves the station before one arrives.

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Yilan (Faye Yu) left Beijing with her husband a dozen years ago, settling in Spokane, Wash. She’s a librarian at the local university, living in a garden apartment. After her divorce, her widowed dad, Mr. Shi (Henry O), comes to help her “recover.” His shoulders are stooped, his English is limited and he’s eager for her to remarry. He waits for her to come home from work. He reads the newspaper. He makes stilted conversation with an Iranian lady in the park. Things are quiet. A few truths emerge.

Children playing at dusk, ducks on the water, a solitary cup of tea, empty train tracks. “A Thousand Years” is imbued with these melancholy images, but it may leave you longing for a story to make you care.

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