Lonely Blue Night (2020)
Douban
蓝色的姑娘
/
Mother Tongue
director:
程愉
playwright:
程愉
actor:
Diana Lin Xiaojie
/
亚历山大·陈
/
Laura Faye Smith
/
远明
/
洛翼云
…
genre:
Short
region:
United States
language:
汉语普通话
/
English
length: 15m
release date: 2020
IMDb: tt10559834
website:
www.mothertonguefilm.com
overview
MOTHER TONGUE (母语) is a portrait of a Chinese American family in which the consequences of a mother’s decision to leave her young daughter in the care of a white American “homestay” family are slowly unearthed over the course of a family dinner.
Inspired by the “parachute kids” he knew growing up, writer/director Johnson Cheng explores the emotions of a daughter who is allowed to reunite, briefly, with her mother and attempts to make a connection with her.