Winner of the French Touch Prize in the Critics’ Week section at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, New York-based American filmmaker Constance Tsang‘s directorial debut Blue Sun Palace really struck a cord with us for how it details a sort of communal isolation within the working-class of NYC’s Chinatown – but this is freshly conceived atypical portrait. While it looks at the an insular existence where a bit of companionship and human warmth breaks the monotony of endless shift work and simply existing, Tsang’s immigrant’s tale seamlessly breaks with traditional portraits — it’s not misery anything and it’ll surprise viewers for its tone and narrative creativity – more focused on mood than plot.…...