Ann Hui’s Song of the Exile is a beautifully rendered mix of nostalgia and history, an agile and expansive portrait of a woman’s relationship with (and understanding of) her mother that leaps across large expanses of geography and chronology. From the Sino-Japanese War to the 1970s, from London to Hong Kong to Macao to Japan, the film integrates the narratives of a small family and the world, and it effortlessly maneuvers between the perspectives of the mother and the daughter as the two characters begin to understand each other and where they both have come from.
by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Kino VHS
17 Mar 2005 12:27 PM | Submit Comment