Tribeca - Lost in Beijing
Chinese drama about a young woman who works in a foot massage parlor. The opening twenty minutes are fairly disturbing as she is raped by first her boss and then her husband. The rest of the movie revolves around the fact that she has gotten pregnant; her boss thinks the child is his and wants it because his wife is barren. Her husband doesn’t care whose baby it is, he just wants to sell it to her boss for $100,000. The entire movie is a slow meditation upon the lack of power that women in China have over their own life. Both the main character and the boss’s wife are plagued by the inability to act out against their husbands, despite the fact that the men take them for granted, force them to make choices they would never make on their own, and generally just crush their spirit. It is a powerful movie. A sad movie. Four out of five.