Meditation Park

Réalisé par Mina Shum

Canada, 2017 (fiction, 94 minutes, couleurs, chinois cantonais / anglais)

Image : © Mongrel Media

Description du film [en anglais] :
« A devoted wife and mother [...] is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman's undergarment in his laundry. »
-- Mongrel Media (source)

Générique (partiel) :
Scénario :	Dennis Foon, Mina Shum
Produit par :	Stephen Hegyes, Raymond Massey, Mina Shum, Mohamad el Masri
Interprètes principaux :	Don McKellar, Liane Balaban, Sandra Oh, Tzi Ma, Pei-Pei Cheng
Images :	Peter Wunstorf
Montage images :	Daria Ellerman
Musique :	Andrew Lockington
Société de production :	Meditation Park Film Ltd., Side Street Post

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Notes sur Meditation Park

Tourné à Vancouver.
Présenté au Toronto International Film Festival en 2017.

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Citation de la réalisatrice [en anglais]

« Our understanding of what a Chinese immigrant woman would be is exactly what we see at the beginning of the film [Meditation Park]. Then, it gets broken down, and so our expectations as an audience get turned on their head—and then we're off to the races. If we can identify her as a hero, then can't we all be heroes? »
-- Mina Shum (source)

Citations sur Meditation Park [en anglais]

« Ultimately [the story of Meditation Park] rests on an affecting and absolutely lovely performance by Cheng Pei-Pei. Known in her youth as an invincible wuxia warrior in martial arts movies like Come Drink With Me, she is just undaunted as a quiet 60-something housewife, her wondrously expressive face carrying this film and its optimistic vision of late-life renewal. »
-- Alison Gillmor (source)

« [In Meditation Park, Mina] Shum deftly juggles several narrative threads, always providing enough information so that her characters register as three-dimensional. Chief among them is Sandra Oh as Maria's daughter Ava, now starting a family of her own and too distracted by that to notice that her mother is in a state. »
-- Chris Knight (source)

Bibliographie sur Meditation Park

Articles de journaux, de revues grand public ou de sites d'information en ligne

COOPER, Julia. « Indie director Mina Shum's Meditation Park asks: 'Can't we all be heroes?'; A big movie about a tiny woman, Shum's new film follows a different kind of lead: A Chinese immigrant who learns her husband of 40 years has been unfaithful », entretien avec Mina Shum, Globe and Mail, 6 mars 2018. [en anglais]
GEE, Dana. « A Meditation on mid-life; Vancouver-shot film tells tale of a woman finding herself amid city's backyard parking community », entretien avec Mina Shum, Vancouver Sun, 8 mars 2018. [en anglais]
GEE, Dana. « Vancouver latecomer actor Lillian Lim shines bright in new feature Meditation Park », Vancouver Sun, 15 mars 2018. [en anglais]
GILLMOR, Alison. « Chinese-Canadian view of the dutiful wife », critique de Meditation Park, Winnipeg Free Press, 16 mars 2018. [en anglais]
KNIGHT, Chris. « A mid-life crisis that plays as real, droll », critique de Meditation Park, Regina Leader-Post, 11 mai 2018. [en anglais]

Sites Web sur Meditation Park

« IMDb: Meditation Park », Internet Movie Database, Inc, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6400316/reference. [en anglais]
« Meditation Park », Mongrel Media, http://www.mongrelmedia.com/index.php/filmlink?id=3a763427-5c83-e711-9448-0ad9f5e1f797#synopsissection. [site officiel] [en anglais]