Ren zai Niu Yue (1989)

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Three Chinese women find each other in Stanley Kwan's Full Moon in New York, each from a different corner of Asia - Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China - and strike up a necessary friendship in the face of cultural isolation. And each has a different experience. The most moving is Siqin Gaowa's, playing the bride of a Chinese-American, and completely cut off from her roots and family, suffering loneliness in an otherwise happy marriage. Sylvia Chang is an actress from a well-to-do family, consistently judged for her Chinese-ness, despite near-total integration. And then there's Maggie Cheung, playing a character who is held back from living the American life she wants to lead because her roots pull at her, notionally between the other two. This isn't as lush as some of Kwan's better known films (Center Stage, Rouge), a smaller film that perhaps blew its budget on the trip over - certainly, there's some some subpar dubbing when the English language is used that make it feel even cheaper - but it's an immensely well observed drama. "And we're gonna leave it there." 2 weeks 4 days ago