Farewell China
Director: Clara Law
1990 / 114min / DCP
Maggie Cheung gives one of her most wrenching and wide-ranging performances in Law’s flaying drama, produced in the downbeat atmosphere immediately following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, playing an emigrant who leaves Mainland China for the USA on a student visa and then announces her plans to make the move permanent—much to the shock of her schoolteacher husband (Tony Leung Kar-fai), left behind with their new baby, who subsequently illegally enters the States to find his errant wife, a journey which takes him into the bowels of New York, seen in off-the-grid David Dinkins-era locations. “Raw, epic… A portrait of Chinese immigrants struggling to survive under truly terrible conditions.” —Los Angeles Times
Distributor: Janus Films
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