On Chinese New Year Eve, ten-year-old Yang Lan is anxiously waiting for her singer mother to come home. While the big family is celebrating loudly with Mahjong, fireworks, dinner, and laughs, she struggles to reconcile her urge to feel, at least for a brief moment, loved.
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February 2021
Q&A with Chloé Zhao and Mollye Asher
Your films feel so naturalistic— as though you just took your crew to a location and filmed what was going on there. But the reality is quite different, isn’t it?
Chloé Zhao: Well, the trick is to make the audience feel like we just showed up.