The life of four ageing Chinese women, who a long ago move into the United States, where they begin a new life and get married, have been changed completely, upon the competition of Mahjong, in which their young teenager daughter participate and struggle against winning it, the thing that leads them to understand the complicated between a mother and her daughter.
At the end of the press screening, Disney's publicists handed out Kleenex to the critics, an effective marketing tool but one that trivilaize the picture, relegating it to the status of a three-handkerchief women's melodrama.
If you can get past the the pacing, the length, and the occasional melodrama, "The Joy Luck Club" rewards on two levels: as a look at Asian-American and Asian culture, and as a consideration of the dynamics that shape mother-daughter relationships.
Four different actresses play the aunties in their youth, which sometimes keeps us struggling to keep the stories straight. That we do is a tribute to the power of Tan's theme about the miscommunication that separates one generation from another.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
March 02, 2008
Well mounted adaptation of best seller.
ReelViews
January 01, 2000
It's fascinating and satisfying the way the diverse threads are knitted together into a single tapestry.
