Category: Film

  • Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity: A Peek into the Chinese-Canadian Milieu

    By Julianna Perkins Grade: B- In this 2002 feature-length drama, director Mina Shum succeeds in crafting an intimate portrait of the Chinese community in Vancouver. More than that, though, Shum captures the everyday realities of Chinese-Canadian immigrant life and uses them to weave a story of precocious youthfulness, stubborn old age and strained family dynamics.…