NIGHTSONGS was made in New York’s Chinatown and explores experiences of exile with suitable restraint. The cramped apartment of a family of Chinese immigrants is visited by their Chinese-Vietnamese cousin, who becomes the silent witness of the difficulties of the individual family members, whose lives are marked by harsh working conditions and their fight for recognition. NIGHTSONGS is structured by the letters that this new arrival in the US writes to her husband, who is looking for their missing children in a refugee camp.

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MARVA NABILI, an immigrant film maker from Iran, has written and directed ”Nightsongs,” a fictional portrait of Chinese immigrants in New York. Having spent several years living near and even working in Chinatown, she has compiled a haunting biography of ”outsiders” trying to survive in a new environment. The slice-of-life details are depicted with the immediacy of a documentary using a hidden camera.
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Within a rather slight narrative framework – the language is mostly Chinese with English subtitles – Miss Nabili’s film enters the relatively closed community of the Chinese-American to gather representative images and vignettes. There is Mr. Fung living in his ”migrant worker” quarters in Long Island and making the lonely train trip into Manhattan every Sunday morning. There are the women in the factory, pushing to reach production quotas while traveling vendors urge them to buy everything from floor mops to pantyhose. And there is the Chinese-Vietnamese visitor, watching everything, rarely saying anything, sensing that tragedy may be imminent.
—The New York Times

Nightsongs (Marva Nabili, 1982).mkv

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Synopsis
Ben’s wife wants some attention. Ben’s boss wants some dedication. Ben’s father wants some grandchildren. And Ben just wants a minute to sort it all out in Wayne Wang’s gentle comedy, “Eat a Bowl of Tea.” In New York’s Chinatown of the late 1940s, young Ben Loy (Russel Wong), fresh out of the service, has his whole life spread out before him — including a job, an apartment, and a marriage arranged by his father (Victor Wong) to the beautiful Mei Oi (Cora Miao). But as eager as the couple is to see what America has to offer them, that’s how eager the whole of Chinatown seems to see some first-generation U.S. offspring. And when Ben’s celebrated young marriage threatens to crumble in the face of this pressure, it’s up to him to separate his dreams from his father’s, and to find a future for himself and his wife in their new adopted homeland. Directed by Wayne Wang, “Eat a Bowl of Tea” is a charming, warm-hearted film based on the classic underground novel by Louis Chu. (from DVD jacket.)

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Language(s):English, Mandarin
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