Sprawlingly ambitious, Joy Dietrich's feature film directorial debut Tie a Yellow Ribbon touches upon just about every young Asian American women's identity issue there is, the sum of it being that it pretty much sucks to be one.
Korean adoptee Jenny Mason (Kim Jiang) is a devil-may-care badass with intimacy issues. Kicked out of her white family's house due to a quasi-incestuous relationship with her adoptive brother, she continues on what seems like an eternal quest to reconcile her itinerant soul in the white, white world. Roommate Bea Shimizu's (Jane Kim) psyche is cleaved by the need to be beautiful for men and brilliant for her parents, to a fatal end.
Despite a questionable chronology in Jenny's life, awkwardly played white male roles and at times over-crisp
DV moments, Tie a Yellow Ribbon is entirely worth seeing. Forthright and poetic in her approach, Dietrich tackles difficult issues with aplomb and has a promising career in film ahead of her.
The film will show at the Asian American International Film Festival on the following dates:
+ Sunday, March 18th, 7 p.m., AMC Van Ness, San Francisco
+ Wednesday, March 21st, 9:30 p.m., AMC Van Ness, San Francisco
See the Festival's website and the film's website for more details.
Posted by rebecca at March 13, 2007 3:55 PM
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