Film by Lecturer Connie Tsang Wins at Cannes Critics’ Week
Blue Sun Palace, the only US film in the selection, won the French Touch prize.
Update
Blue Sun Palace earned the festival’s French Touch prize, given to one of the seven feature film selections with the aim of “shining a light on an act of cinema that features creativity and boldness.”
“The intimate and naturalistic Mandarin-language drama Blue Sun Palace has nabbed the French Touch prize from the Cannes Critics’ Week jury, putting Chinese-American writer-director Constance Tsang on the map as a talent to watch after her feature debut,” writes variety.com.
April 17, 2024
Cannes Critics’ Week takes place alongside the main Cannes Film Festival and presents first and second feature films from emerging directors.
Blue Sun Palace, the first feature film by Chinese American writer and director Connie Tsang, is one of seven selected for the Feature Film competition from a record 1,050 submissions—and the only US selection. The 63rd edition of Cannes Critics Week takes place May 15–23.
Blue Sun Palace (2024)
A sudden loss catalyzes an unlikely bond between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens. Navigating lives far from home and the painstaking labor that supports them, they journey through grief together in hopes of finding family.
“As humble and dignified as its characters, this first, realistic and intimate, film sheds light on a community that is little seen,” said Ava Cahen, Critics’ Week’s artistic director.
Cannes Critics’ Week (La Semaine de la Critique) is organized by the French Union of Film Critics, which is composed of more than 300 critics, writers, and journalists.
