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‘Rosemead’ Review: Lucy Liu Scores As A Suburban Mom Forced To Confront The Unthinkable – Tribeca Festival
‘Rosemead’ review: Lucy Liu scores as a suburban mom forced to confront the unthinkable – Tribeca Film Festival
'Rosemead'Rosemead Project The sunny strip-mall mundanity of Southern California’s San Gabriel Valley is the fascinating setting for Eric Lin’s dark directorial debut, the unsettling and not entirely successful story of a widow struggling with her son’s mental illness. Based, very closely, on a series of real-life events that occurred in 2015 and were documented two years later by journalist Frank Shyong in the L.A. Times(be warned: the headline alone is one massive spoiler), Rosemead works better as a character study than it does as an issue movie about mental health. Perhaps the bigger point Lin is trying to make is the matter of pride in the Asian diaspora, reflected in Irene’s attempts to brush Joe’s problems under the carpet and telling her friends that his visits to the shrink are, in fact, due of his interest in psychiatry.
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