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"But I am only trying to help.
A gentle, tender and revealing story of family relationships.
Yilan (Feihong Yu) hasn't seen he father (Henry O) in 12 years and it is with trepidation that she meets him at the airport when he arrives from China.
Mr. Shi admits that he'd not been a good father. He was away for work much of the time and just never spent the time to care about his only child. Yilan had a much better relationship with her now deceased mother.
Their conversation is stained at best. And Mr. Shi tries to tell her how she should cook and carry on her life. Each day when Yilan goes off to work as a librarian at Gonzaga University, Mr. Shi snoops in her room and finds things that don't make him happy. He also takes walks, exploring the town, and meets a mature Iranian divorcee (Vida Ghahremani) who lives with her son. Together talk in fragmented English, Mandarin, and Farsi and reveal their own stories.
Will Yilan accept her father and will he accept her as she is? Can the two make peace?
From stories by Yiyun Li and directed by Wayne Wang.
Some subtitles.
Run time: 1 hour, 23 minutes
Not rated by MPAA.
My personal rating: B
A gentle, tender and revealing story of family relationships.
Yilan (Feihong Yu) hasn't seen he father (Henry O) in 12 years and it is with trepidation that she meets him at the airport when he arrives from China.
Mr. Shi admits that he'd not been a good father. He was away for work much of the time and just never spent the time to care about his only child. Yilan had a much better relationship with her now deceased mother.
Their conversation is stained at best. And Mr. Shi tries to tell her how she should cook and carry on her life. Each day when Yilan goes off to work as a librarian at Gonzaga University, Mr. Shi snoops in her room and finds things that don't make him happy. He also takes walks, exploring the town, and meets a mature Iranian divorcee (Vida Ghahremani) who lives with her son. Together talk in fragmented English, Mandarin, and Farsi and reveal their own stories.
Will Yilan accept her father and will he accept her as she is? Can the two make peace?
From stories by Yiyun Li and directed by Wayne Wang.
Some subtitles.
Run time: 1 hour, 23 minutes
Not rated by MPAA.
My personal rating: B
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