| | |  | Gimme Sugar | Home » » » Drifting Flowers | | | | | | | Description: | | Teddy Award-winning Director Zero Chou (Spider Lilies) weaves three poetic tales as the lesbians in Drifting Flowers seek their true identity. In the first story, Jing, a blind singer, falls in love with her band's tomboy accordionist Diego. In another time and place, Lily, an elderly lesbian and Yen, her gay friend, create an unexpected bond and support each other in a time of crisis. Finally, we see Diego before she joined the band, when as a teenager she came to grips with her gender identity. | | | Features: | |
• DRIFTING FLOWERS WS (DVD MOVIE)
| | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Lu Yi-ching, Serena Fang, Pai Chih-Ying, Chao Yi-Lan, Sam Wang | | Director:
| Zero Chou | | Format:
| Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen | | Language:
| Cantonese | | Subtitle:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| WOLFE VIDEO | | Run Time:
| 99 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| February 03, 2009 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 2 reviews |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Sad but touching & hopeful storiesOct 02, 2010
By julia set-up disconnect
After the first vignette, I thought this movie was good but such a downer, but as it went on, I thought it got better and better. I rented it on-demand, but I plan on buying it.
It's very much a drama, and as the other reviewer said, it contains cliches, but it's really a study of several lives intersecting in ways we don't find out until the final vignette. Friendship and romance take equal weight in the last two vignettes, while the first focuses on sisterhood. Disability--blindness, AIDS, and dementia--is a major theme, along with social change and the persistence of homophobia & transphobia. Nuanced and wide-ranging family issues shape a lot of the story. There is no happy ending, no neat wrapping up of conflicts, but by then end I felt like I'd just seen glimpses of lives containing much happiness and togetherness as well as strife.
This movie certainly isn't flawless: I was confused about when the different scenes were set--everyone's clothing looks contemporary to me. I'm not sure how to interpret Yeh's angry outbursts at Lily in part two--maybe just those of a man in great pain? And most of all, it was very heavy/dark.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 A kiss does not a theme makeOct 21, 2011
By Diva
I tried to stay with it, but ultimately -- I drifted. Another Asian movie about homosexuality without any homosexual sexuality.
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