“A finely chiseled drama about an unstable Chinese mother struggling to reconcile her desires with her children's needs in early 70s Australia… speaks bittersweet truths about life in the Chinese diaspora.” - Variety Drawing from autobiographical experiences, filmmaker Tony Ayres (Walking on Water, MIFF 2002) casts Joan Chen (Twin Peaks) in an intensely committed performance as a Chinese nightclub singer wrestling with the culture shock of life in the Australian suburbs. When a younger man comes on the scene, her tenuous family bonds threaten to loosen.“The ornamental trappings of Rose's exotic background [form] a sharp contrast to the hideous 1970s decor of middle-class Australia. Perhaps garish shag-pile carpets and butt-ugly wallpaper were enough to kill the spirit of a beautiful foreign butterfly like Rose.” - Hollywood Reporter

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D/S Tony Ayres P Michael McMahon, Liz Watts Dist Dendy Films L English, Cantonese, Mandarin w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2007/103mins