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SUMMARY:Blue Sun Palace: EAFFI Discoveries
DESCRIPTION:Shot in beautiful 35mm film\, Chinese American writer-director Constance Tsang's luminous debut feature is a delicate\, atmospheric melodrama set in Flushing\, Queens\, NYC. Amy (Ke-Xi Wu) and Didi (Haipeng Xu)\, two Chinese migrants work in a small parlour salon. Uprooted and far from their loved ones\, their deep sisterhood helps them survive the temporal and emotional toll their work demands in a strange land. Didi has a secret lover\, Cheung (Lee Kang-Sheng\, actor of the great Tsai Ming-Liang)\, but when violence intrudes everything falls apart\, and Amy finds herself alone\, forced to consider her own destiny. Intimately filmed in her home neighbourhood\, Constance Tsang brings poignancy to the state of contemporary exile\, with airy\, unobtrusive camera movement and long takes translating loneliness and grief. \n\n \n\n(Marie-Pierre Richard\, EAFFI Discoveries) \n\n \n\nFestival selection/awards: Winner French Touch Prize of the Jury\, Cannes Critics' Week 2024 \n\n \n\n"(A) resolutely humane but fiercely unsentimental film." IndieWire
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><span style="font-size:14px\;"><span style="font-family:arial\;">Shot in beautiful 35mm film\, Chinese American writer-director Constance Tsang&rsquo\;s luminous debut feature is a delicate\, atmospheric melodrama set in Flushing\, Queens\, NYC. Amy (Ke-Xi Wu) and Didi (Haipeng Xu)\, two Chinese migrants work in a small parlour salon. Uprooted and far from their loved ones\, their deep sisterhood helps them survive the temporal and emotional toll their work demands in a strange land. Didi has a secret lover\, Cheung (Lee Kang-Sheng\, actor of the great Tsai Ming-Liang)\, but when violence intrudes everything falls apart\, and Amy finds herself alone\, forced to consider her own destiny. Intimately filmed in her home neighbourhood\, Constance Tsang brings poignancy to the state of contemporary exile\, with airy\, unobtrusive camera movement and long takes translating loneliness and grief.&nbsp\;</span></span></p>\n\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n\n<p><span style="font-size:14px\;"><span style="font-family:arial\;">(Marie-Pierre Richard\, EAFFI Discoveries)&nbsp\;</span></span></p>\n\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n\n<p><span style="font-size:14px\;"><span style="font-family:arial\;">Festival selection/awards: Winner French Touch Prize of the Jury\, Cannes Critics&rsquo\; Week 2024&nbsp\;</span></span></p>\n\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n\n<p><span style="font-size:14px\;"><span style="font-family:arial\;">&ldquo\;(A) resolutely humane but fiercely unsentimental film.&rdquo\;&nbsp\;<em>IndieWire</em></span></span></p>\n
LOCATION:Triskel Arts Centre\, Tobin Street\, Cork City
UID:e.2489.35124
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DTSTAMP:20260403T222536Z
URL:https://chamber.corkchamber.ie/events/details/blue-sun-palace-eaffi-discoveries-35124
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