THE POST MODERN LIFE OF MY AUNT

Well written, with lots of laughs and good acting from the cast, including Hong Kong superstar Chow Yun Fat and China superstar Zhao Wei, director Ann Hui has succeeded in an open faced and both light hearted and serious film about a woman, Mrs. Ye, living in the urban zone during Communism times. A self proclaimed righteous woman with scholastic schools, she finds a slow downfall in her aging years. But as the large rising moon might symbolize, there is hope, and there is her estranged daughter to whom the downfalls leads her back home with family.