When devoted wife and mother maria cheng peipei finds another womans thong in her husbands laundry, she is forced to confront her enduring silence and reassess her reverence for him, in this empowering tale of liberation from canadianchinese auteur mina shum. Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state 22829. Enjoy a rich lineup of tv shows and movies included with your prime membership. Mina shums meditation park to open viff 2017 viff 2017. Current movie listings and showtimes for meditation park. A wife reexamines her veneration of her husband after she finds another womans underwear. Written and directed by canadian indie filmmaker mina shum, the new drama follows a chinese immigrant grandma named maria who is stunned to. Mongrel media is handling the films sales and will be releasing it domestically in canada. Meditation park saturday, march 24, 2018 mina shums new film is a touching, amusing, and finely observed tale of maria, an asiancanadian grandmother who arrives at her own declaration of personal independence after discovering that her longstanding husband may not be as worthy of her reverential treatment as she once believed. Canadian director mina shum on her unusually uplifting film, meditation park, about a middleaged chinese immigrant whose life drastically changes after her husbands infidelity forces her to find her independence. The film opened the 2017 vancouver international film festival and was screened in the contemporary world cinema section at the 2017 toronto international film festival.
An aging woman questions her life after suspecting her husband is having an affair. The late robert altman for example, or woody allen, john sayles or david mamet. However, while preparing for the party, maria is tidying up. Mar 09, 2018 meditation park in theatres march 9, 2018. Devoted wife and mother, 60yearold maria wangs life is altered when she discovers an orange thong in her husbands pants pocket, forcing her to confront how powerless. Overall, meditation park is a good but serviceable comedydrama which often gets bogged down by poor comedic moments, but gives enough nuance and awareness that the film lends emotional satisfaction and interesting perspectives into the lives of women in traditional chinese families. Maria wang cheng pei pei, 60, reveres her workaholic accountant husband, bing tzi ma. It was featured on a recent episode of cbc televisions the filmmakers series her new film meditation park is a bittersweet comedy about a devoted chinesecanadian wife and mother in east vancouver whose life and family are forever altered after. Mina shums first narrative feature since 2002 following a decadelong stint directing vancouverbased television is contained within the few blocks surrounding the intersection of renfrew and hastings in east vancouver, a community largely made up of longtime asian immigrants. Much of the films heavy lifting is left to cheng and ma, who have to flesh out the beats of their relationship beyond the words and actions contained within shums screenplay. For his 65th birthday, maria is throwing him a big birthday party, and has invited their grown daughter ava, but not their son charles, because bing has disowned him and she has respected his insistence that she also not speak to their son.
Meditation park 2017 a dutiful wife and mother reexamines her veneration of her husband after she finds another womans underwear in his laundry. Cheng pei pei, tzi ma, sandra oh, zak santiago, liane. Meditation park opens with maria cheng pei pei, the matriarch of a chinese canadian family, hosting a birthday celebration for her workaholic husband, bing. Maria wang cheng pei pei, 60, reveres her workaholic accountant husband, bing. Its hardly a game changing look at one womans emotional middle aged awakening, but its a well intentioned film that i could see mothers and daughter enjoying together and talking about afterward. Unlike most film projects in the area, meditation park is actually set in vancouver. Cheng pei pei, tzi ma, and sandra oh headline mina shums latest, a comedy of selfdiscovery about 60yearold maria, whose marriage seems the paragon of happiness until she finds a mysterious piece of womens underwear in her husbands pocket. Mar 06, 2018 meditation park is a big movie about a tiny woman. Slowly and assuredly, meditation park does build to a moment of reckoning between maria and bing, which is wonderfully acted by both leads.
A bit too hammy at moments, meditation park is otherwise a complex film that hews with tenderness to asian stereotypes in order to reflect back their oftenobscured depths. The film opened the 2017 vancouver international film festival and was screened in the. The movie is named after a tiny slice of green there. Written and directed by canadian indie filmmaker mina shum, the new drama follows a chinese immigrant grandma named maria who. An aging woman questions her life after suspecting her husband is having an. Her efforts to find out the truth send her on an unexpected journey of liberation. Nov 22, 2017 mina shum directs an allstar cast including cheng pei pei, sandra oh, tzi ma, and don mckellar in her latest feature, about a devoted wife and mother wh. Meditation park at tiff by ralph lucas publisher september 11, 2017 toronto, on some directors form unofficial repertory companies. Tickets for this movie are not available at this moment. Meditation park is a charming and generous film, boasting fine performances by its leads and great support by mckellar, liane balaban in an affecting and lovely cameo, and the star of shums debut, double happiness, the phenomenal sandra oh, as marias daughter. We worked hard to enhance your user experience and bring you a modernized version of the premier network for film professionals. Meditation park mina shum, canada contemporary world cinema.
Mar 08, 2018 canadian filmmaker mina shums lowkey, sliceoflife dramedy meditation park would be better suited to a release date closer to mothers day than late winter. Maria starts sleuthing around for answers, and in the process, learns to value life on her own terms, from her relationship with her adult. For his 65th birthday, maria is throwing him a big birthday party, and has invited their grown daughter ava sandra oh, but not their son charles, because bing has disowned him and she has respected his insistence that she also not speak to their son. Oct 11, 2017 overall, meditation park is a good but serviceable comedydrama which often gets bogged down by poor comedic moments, but gives enough nuance and awareness that the film lends emotional satisfaction and interesting perspectives into the lives of women in traditional chinese families. Meditation in the park is a group of new orleans musicians drummers, horns and singers who gather to play among the oak trees in city park sunday mornings. What they also have in common is the fact they are writers as well as directors. Mina shum directs an allstar cast including cheng pei pei, sandra oh, tzi ma, and don mckellar in her latest feature, about a devoted wife and mother wh. The story was written by hong kongborn, vancouverraised filmmaker mina shum. For his 65th birthday, maria is throwing him a big birthday party, and has invited their grown daughter ava. Sep 04, 2017 the film has yet to get an official release date. Edition discs price new from used from dvd feb 11, 2011 please retry 1.
Mar 09, 2018 canadian director mina shum on her unusually uplifting film, meditation park, about a middleaged chinese immigrant whose life drastically changes after her husbands infidelity forces her to find her independence. Mar 24, 2018 meditation park saturday, march 24, 2018 mina shums new film is a touching, amusing, and finely observed tale of maria, an asiancanadian grandmother who arrives at her own declaration of personal independence after discovering that her longstanding husband may not be as worthy of her reverential treatment as she once believed. Shum has designed her film for general viewers, which means that coherence of tone and theme are less important than forcing in broad comedy and uplifting. The movie meditation park was released in 2017 and lasts 94 minutes. Mina shum directs an allstar cast including cheng pei pei, sandra oh, tzi ma, and don mckellar in her latest feature, about a devoted wife and mother who is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another womans undergarment in his laundry. Devoted wife and mother, 60yearold maria wangs life is altered when she discovers an orange thong in her husbands pants pocket, forcing her to confront how powerless she truly is. Meditation park north of superior film association. Meditation park feature meditation park is one of 3 projects which were awarded funding as part of cbcs breaking barriers film fund this year. Stay tuned with us for more details about the movie meditation park. Mar 12, 2018 meditation park is a charming and generous film, boasting fine performances by its leads and great support by mckellar, liane balaban in an affecting and lovely cameo, and the star of shums debut, double happiness, the phenomenal sandra oh, as marias daughter.
Still from meditation park directed by mina shum mina shums meditation park tells the uplifting story of maria peipei cheng, an elderly woman who eventually finds her. Meditation park canadian trailer hd mongrel media duration. Meditation park is a touching tale of an asiancanadian grandmother who arrives at her own declaration of personal independence after discovering her husbands infidelity. A bit too hammy at moments, meditation park is otherwise a complex film that hews with tenderness to. Meditation park canadian trailer hd mongrel media youtube. Maria cheng pei pei and ava sandra oh in meditation park. Meditation park will make its world premiere at the toronto international film festival. Alan watts the art of meditation full movie duration. Get 50% off hundreds of family movies when you preorder on fandangonow today. Meditation park marks the reunion of director mina shum and actress sandra oh, who began their film careers together in 1994s double happiness. That amusement centre, also unseen, is the reason locals can meditate on selling spare. Vancouver writerdirector mina shums 1994 first feature double happiness was a breakout hit and winner of the best canadian feature film at tiff. Meditation park is a 2017 canadian drama film directed by mina shum.
Meditation park devoted wife and mother, 60yearold maria wangas life is altered when she discovers an orange thong in her husbandas pants pocket, forcing her to confront how powerless she truly is. Mina shums meditation park is a bittersweet comedy about a devoted chinesecanadian wife and mother in east vancouver whose life and family are forever altered after she discovers an orange thong in her husbands pocket, forcing her on a journey of truth and liberation. But thats about as far as meditation parks daring extends. Following in the footsteps of her previous work like double happiness, meditation park highlights director. Mina shum directs an allstar cast including cheng pei pei, sandra oh, tzi ma, and don mckellar in her latest feature, about a devoted wife and mother who is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another. Peipei cheng and sandra oh in meditation park 2017 don mckellar and pei pei cheng in meditation. With peipei cheng, tzi ma, sandra oh, don mckellar. Meditation refers to a very broad variety of practices that may aim at uniting ones soul with the cosmic soulalso can be intercepted in many ways training one.
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