Name: Yi Yi
Released: 2000

Yi Yi (2000): trivia & fun facts

Yang's script originally had the children aged 10 and 15, but Yang later found Jonathan Chang and Kelly Lee (who had never acted before).
The New Yorker critic David Denby concluded: "By degrees, with incredible calm and patience, the narrative takes hold, and by the end nearly every shot seems momentous".
In 2019, The Guardian ranked Yi Yi 26th in its 100 Best Films of the 21st Century list.
In June 2025, the film ranked 40th on The New York Times's list of "The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century" and 69th on the "Readers' Choice" edition of the list.
In July 2025, it ranked eighth on Rolling Stone's list of "The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century."
Peng has a small cameo in the film as a concert cellist, playing Beethoven's Cello sonata No. 1 with her husband posing as a pianist.

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