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‘Blue Sun Palace’ Review: Critics Week Award Winner Tells Story Of Grief And Rebirth In New York Chinese Community – Cannes Film Festival
A review of the Critics Week winner at Cannes Film Festival, 'Blue Sun Palace' with a focus on a trio of Taiwanese immigrants now working in New York
The feature film debut of Chinese American Director/Writer Constance Tsang focuses on three main characters, immigrants to New York, specifically Flushing in Queens where Didi ( Haipeng Xu) and Amy (Le-Xi Wu) operate the Blue Sun Palace, a massage parlor/nail shop where the front door clearly notes “No Sexual Services” at this establishment. The director is clearly a minimalist, a devotee of what is known now as “slow cinema” (the name given to an arthouse subgenre) in which little appears to happen, the camera lingers without moving for several minutes at a time, and there is virtually no music score to help tell the audience what to feel (Sami Jano is credited as composer but it is so sparse until the very end that he really had little to do). Tsang, who based her story partially on her own immigrant past with her parents in Queens, can certainly use this very small, very minimalist offering as a calling card to more ambitious projects.
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