Scenes of daily life in rural Romania resolve into an enigmatic fable exposing the community’s xenophobia and post-Cold War tensions. R.M.N. would pair well with Small Things Like These (teases out the sinister undercurrent of a quaint town, takes place during Christmas) and Evil Does Not Exist (symbolic animals, lengthy town hall meeting, ending that I don’t understand).
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Full Moon in New York 1989
Sylvia Chang, Maggie Cheung, and Siqin Gaowa reflect the complex loneliness of immigrant life in the flashes of doubt, anger, and longing that flit across their faces, but disjointed writing and editing reduce their efforts to puzzle pieces. It’s quite a feat to make a basic character drama so opaque. (The inaccurate subtitles didn’t help, plus, despite being Chinese American, I turned out to be pretty clueless about the movie’s political and cultural background.) I’m now desperate to see a production of Macbeth with Asian actors (the three women here, perhaps?) that uses the original dialogue.
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Ziegfeld Follies 1945
Was seeing Fred Astaire dance with Gene Kelly worth seeing Fred Astaire pretend to be Asian? Hmm...
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