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Austin Film Society Essential Cinema: Song of the Exile
September 20, 2011
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Tuesday, September 20 at 7 PM
The Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
Written by Wu Nien-Jen
Cinematography by Zhong Zhiwen
Hong Kong, 1990, color, 35mm, 1.85:1, 100 min.
Cast: Maggie Cheung, Tan Lang Jachi Tian, Waise Lee, Zi Xiong Li, Lu Hsiao-fen
Cantonese/Mandarin/Japanese with English subtitles
Always at odds with her mother, Ann (Maggie Cheung from DAYS OF BEING WILD) is only now returning from London, where she has gotten a Masters Degree in Communications. She had hopes of staying in England to work for the BBC, but when that doesn’t come through she accepts the invitation to her sister’s wedding back in Hong Kong. Ann bristles under her mother’s renewed attempts to rule over her life, but is sobered by the revelation that her mother was actually Japanese and had married Ann’s father in Manchuria, the Japanese foothold in China during World War II. Curious about her mother’s origins, Ann agrees to travel with her to Japan to see long distant relatives. While there, Ann begins to feel as her mother must have felt – a “stranger in a strange land” with different food, language, and customs, The trip is healing for both mother and daughter. Adding to Ann’s sense of estrangement, however, is her trip to Canton to visit her dying grandfather, who had mistakenly returned to mainland China from Hong Kong in hopes of being part of the “new China.” The Red Guards, in the name of the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and early 70s, tortured his illusions right out of him. This is a very sensitive portrayal of alienation within one’s own culture, country, family, and heart. At the time of its release such was a rare subject for a Hong Kong film.
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Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar
1120 South Lamar
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September 20, 2011Times:
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