Pushing Hands (Father Knows Best Trilogy)

Pushing Hands 

Tui Shou Taïwan-USA 1991 | Ang Lee | vostEN | 105’ | digital | Cast : Sihung Lung, Lai Wang, Bo Z. Wang, Deb Snyder, Haan Lee

►10 Nominations; Golden Horse Awards 1991

►New 2K Restoration

Having just moved from Beijing, elderly tai chi master Mr. Chu (Sihung Lung) struggles to adjust to life in New York, living with his Americanized son Alex. Chu immediately butts heads with his put-upon white daughter-in-law, Martha (Deb Snyder), a writer who seems to blame him for her own paralyzing inability to focus. But when Chu begins teaching tai chi at a local school, his desire to make a meaningful connection comes to fruition in the most unexpected of ways.

« It is a lovingly observed, nicely acted, human comedy with Lung emerging as the shrewd, witty delight he is in all three films of the Father Knows Best trilogy. » (Los Angeles Times)

« Mr. Lung makes palpable the Old World virtues Mr. Lee celebrates and the assurance that however rude life becomes, those virtues won't be washed away. » (New York Times).