It is as if memory is a vital ingredient that makes the drama live, with a throb that the here-and-now doesn’t have.Yet there is one very good moment. It is a powerful moment when Pin-Jui, having always been ashamed to take Yuan back to the humble place he shares with his widowed mother, finally does so, and Yang indirectly suggests that this is the point at which they have sex for the first time, but also when Pin-Jui is trying to show Yuan how desperately poor he is, so she will understand his need to get away at all costs.And so Pin-Jui’s whole life is founded on a lie: a loveless marriage to a gentle, sensitive person who senses down deep that something is wrong but, schooled in the wifely duties of submission, simply thinks that all marriages are as tough and unhappy as hers. The manager of the factory where Pin-Jui and his mum have jobs takes him aside and asks him to have dinner with his demure daughter, Zhenzhen (Kunjue Li), and tells him that, if they get married, he will pay for them to travel and get set up in the States. Mother and son are very close. The experience triggers a rush of memories: living with grandmother as a child under Chinese rule, and then as a young man (played by Hong-chi Lee), full of dreams and swagger, in love with his childhood sweetheart, Yuan (Yo-Hsing Fang), with whom he dances to American-style pop music in the local bars. She has no idea why her parents divorced.All of this is presented in an open way, accentuated by sensitive specific performances.
Zhenzhen’s one friend is fellow Taiwanese Peijing (Cindera Che), who is quite unsentimental about her own unsatisfactory marriage. The young Pin-Jui (Hong-Chi Lee) dreams of getting to America: he will make a lot of money so he can support his mother (Kuei-Mei Yang). On the flipside, growing up with such a father has scarred Angela. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. TWITTER 4/10/2020 … Pin-Jui harshly tells Angela not to cry, just as his own tough grandmother told him. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Alan Yang, well-known to audiences from his work as a writer/producer/actor on such hit series as "Parks and Recreation" and "Master of None," spoke about "Tigertail," his narrative feature debut as director and writer.The deeply powerful and personal film is based loosely on his experiences as the … When Zhenzhen confides to her that she and her husband have nothing in common, she says: “Eventually, your life together is what you have in common.” That is a grim thought – and yet many modern-day Americans, immigrants or otherwise, have seen their parents make the best of things in just this way.The scenes of childhood and youth work very well, but the modern-day part of the film is directed in an oddly flat way, and the all-important scenes with Angela have little of the charge that Yang puts into the earlier sequences. At night, he goes out to a bar and dances with his childhood friend Yuan, the Taiwanese pop songs on the record player will become important talismans for Pin-Jui later in life. Tigertail is a deeply powerful and personal film. Retrouvez les 1 critiques et avis pour le film Tigertail, réalisé par Alan Yang avec Lee Hong-Chi, Tzi Ma, Kunjue Li. Yang's script is thoughtful and precise: every character gets to be three-dimensional. It's a perfect evocation of innocence, joy, young love, hope. 12:01 AM PDT 4/10/2020 by Inkoo Kang FACEBOOK; TWITTER; EMAIL ME; Netflix 'Tigertail' A meager tale. The work is hard. She knows nothing of his life before he came to America. But, as the elderly man's voiceover tells us, his mother left him with his grandparents so she could find a job in the city. Pin-Jui cannot allow himself to grieve what he lost when he left Taiwan. But when Pin-Jui's boss says he will finance Pin-Jui's move to America, but only if Pin-Jui marries his daughter Zhenzhen (How all this plays out, with the love and care Yang has put into every detail, makes "Tigertail" sneakily powerful.
At home, his harried grandmother hides him in a cupboard when soldiers show up at her door unannounced. Read her answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire And yet there is a real emotional surge in the way Yang conjures the past.Tzi Ma is Pin-Jui, a divorced Taiwanese guy living in New York, who has a tense relationship with his grownup daughter, Angela (Christine Ko). And so the cycle of pain continues. The two work in a factory together. He has just returned to the city, having made a melancholy journey back to his hometown of Huwei (or “Tigertail”) to attend the funeral of his mother (Kuei-Mei Yang) whom he could never persuade to join him in the US. But Yang also honors Pin-Jui's sacrifices and regrets, what he had to give up in order to give his children a better life. She never measured up. A young Taiwanese man faces an agonising choice when offered a new life in the US in this heartfelt drama from a writer of Parks and RecreationIt is a very different work: serious and personal, clearly fictionalising at some level aspects of the director’s own family experience, and perhaps self-conscious in a way that successful comedy isn’t. A young Taiwanese man faces an agonising choice when offered a new life in … They are the texture of American life.Sheila O'Malley received a BFA in Theatre from the University of Rhode Island and a Master's in Acting from the Actors Studio MFA Program. It is right to honor such men and women. 'Tigertail': Film Review. "Good advice in that particular context, but stretched out over a long and tumultuous life, the same advice traps Pin-Jui ("Tigertail" floats back and forth between the present and the past, an effective device that creates comparisons, often painful, between Pin-Jui's hopes as a young man and the disappointments and hardships of the years following.