We loved this story of a Chinese woman who wins big at a casino not far from her home in NYC's Chinatown. The script is clever and hilarious, mostly in Chinese dialect with subtitles, picturing the melding of traditional ways with the modern world. Note: there's a little tiny bit of violence.
Directed and co-written by Sasie Sealy and co-written by Angela Chen in their feature debut, it stars Tsai Chin in the title role. She will be 87 next month, is the daughter of an actor, was the first Chinese student to study at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and has dozens of credits, including You Only Live Twice (1967), The Joy Luck Club (1993), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), and Now You See Me 2.
The soundtrack by Andrew Orkin is available on Apple Music, Soundcloud, and more.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics' average is 94% (right) and its audiences' 67 (wrong).
The best way to watch this, as Jack and I did in early September, is by supporting your favorite independent cinema. Go to this link and find your favorite (sorted by state). The theatre will get a commission on your rental of the movie.
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