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BLUE SUN PALACE - Official Trailer

Winner of the French Touch prize in the Critics’ Week lineup of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, Director Constance Tsang’s intimate, sensitively observed drama stars Lee Kang-sheng (Vive L'Amour, Goodbye, Dragon Inn) alongside Wu Ke-xi and Xu Haixpeng as three Chinese immigrants living in Flushing, Queens—he’s a construction worker, they’re employees of a massage parlor they dream of being able to leave—whose routine lives and relationships are changed forever following a tragic Lunar New Year incident.

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One of the best movies I’ve seen this year. What if David Lynch and Ti West had a baby and that baby worked for Adult Swim and made Robert Zemeckis’ “Here.”… this is the film. I truly didn’t know what was happening from one moment to the next. I can’t recommend this enough.

Here but good

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!!!!

I went into this movie blind after i stumbled across it on Max and i am so glad that i did! The acting is fantastic and the entire movie is filled with very believable, natural dialogue. Yule Log was an extremely wild ride, but it is SUCH a fantastic time and it was fun to piece everything together as i watched the movie. This is definitely a new holiday tradition!!!!

if i was in the criterion closet this would b one of my picks

Legitimately one of the very best films of all time and I speak with only slight hyperbole. This is the cinematic incarnation of Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. A paragon of comedy.

Twittering Soul

Twittering Soul

★★★★★

As far as I know, this is the only made-for-3D cosmic/folk horror period drama out there. But we need more of those.
After this, I’ve seen enough movies that tell you to be terrified without telling you what to be terrified of to call it a genre, and it’s possibly my favorite genre.
Highlights are the 3-plus-minute-long opening sequence of a darkening storm with wailing brass instruments, the unexplained inhabiting of humans by animals, the scattered rituals and myths, the…

Cinema at its finest. Anyone who didn't see this in 3D in theaters missed out. Only time in my life I have enjoyed 3D — probably because it works so much stronger in slow cinema. I felt like I was there, watching trees 300 feet in the background swaying in the wind.

Some other reviews critique the plot and fragmentation of the narrative — it works for me in a spiritual sense that is impossible to explain.

This experience was cinema as religion.

There's too much to say about this film. It's rare to walk out of modern films and feel so much hope for the art form.

Never thought I'd care for 3d as I haven't ever before, but with this film, it really does something new here.