Drifting Flowers

Synopsis :
Director Zero Chou (spider lilies) impresses with Drifting Flowers, her follow-up to the attractive but frustratingly abstract Spider Lilies. A trio of interrelated Taiwan-set stories detailing homosexual relationships, Drifting Flowers is unoriginal yet engaging, and features sympathetic characters and situations. The first segment tells the tale of eight-year-old May (Pai Chih-Ying), who lives under the care of her blind sister Jing (Serena Fang), a singer in a three-person lounge act. One of her colleagues is the tall Diego (Chao Yi-Lan), whose boyish haircut and butch manner of dress signal her sexual orientation like a bright red flag. Diego becomes close to the two sisters, and May becomes attached to Diego in return. That is, until she grows jealous of Diego's affection towards Jing, and decides that her sister is trying to steal Diego for herself. May's feelings for Diego are innocent rather than romantic, but the situation spins inevitably out of control due to May's inability to separate reality from her active imagination. With society nominally against the entire situation, the two sisters suffer a split that may take years to mend, if ever. At once frustrating and understandable, the first segment takes a few shortcuts narratively, but its emotions feel earned.

Length : 97 minutes

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Video resolution : Excellent
Audio : Chinese Hokkien
Subtitle : Chinese
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