Happy Lunar New Year from the USC US-China Institute!
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
The Pacific Basin Institute presents a screening by director by Wayne Wang.
When:
March 11, 2009 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Directed by Wayne Wang from a screenplay adapted by Yiyun Li from her own short story, A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS stars Henry O as Mr. Shi, an elderly Beijing gentleman who pays a visit to his daughter in America. Father and daughter both have skeletons in their closets, and the movie generates much of its feeling from their efforts to muffle the rattling. When Yilan heads off to work, her father pours over the newspaper or sits on a bench in the nearby park, where he strikes up a poignant friendship with a matronly Iranian immigrant (touchingly played by Vida Ghahremani). [Nathan Lee, New York Times, September 19, 2008]
FMI, contact (909) 445-9386.
Cost:
Free
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