Kristin Cavallari‘s boyfriend got into some trouble before he found her, it seems!
24.05.2024 - 01:07 / variety.com
Alissa Simon Film Critic The intimate and naturalistic Mandarin-language drama “Blue Sun Palace” has nabbed the French Touch prize from the Cannes Critics’ Week jury, putting Chinese-American writer-director Constance Tsang on the map as a talent to watch after her feature debut. Certain to see future festival action, the drama about three working-class Chinese immigrants in Flushing, NY, the film succeeds with touching performances from Ke-Xi Wu (“Nina Wu”), Lee Kang Sheng (Tsai Ming Liang’s iconic actor) and Haixpeng Xu (“Where Echoes Never End”) that could tempt distributors in the coming months.
Although the borough of Queens is pone of the most diverse places on the planet, the insular world of “Blue Sun Palace” is almost solely Chinese, unfolding in New York’s largest Chinatown. Taiwanese Amy (Ke-Xi Wu) and mainlander Didi (Haixpeng Xu)work along with two other women in a massage parlor with an exclusively male clientele.
The sign on the door stipulates “No Sexual Services,” but the masseuses receive bigger tips if they provide what the trade dubs a “happy ending.” While the job isn’t exactly pleasant, the women evince a positive camaraderie, necessary for group who share a small living and working space. Moreover, Didi and Amy, who are particularly close, are saving to open a restaurant in Baltimore where Didi’s young daughter lives with her aunt.
Meanwhile, outside of office hours, pretty, cheerful Didi is seeing Cheung (Tsai Ming-liang regular Lee Kang Sheng), a lonely, middle-aged Taiwanese man who ekes out a living in the construction trade and sends money home to his sick mother, wife and daughter. The film’s intimately shot opening moments show them enjoying each other’s company at a restaurant and singing
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Cyndi Lauper is saying goodbye.
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Blue Sun Palace was one of the prize winners at the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival where it took the French Touch award of the Cannes Critics week selections (Simon Of The Mountains took the Grand Prize, the other major award from the section). French “Touch” is an ironic name for an award to a film where “touch” is key in several scenes depicted in the massage parlor setting where much of the movie takes place.
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