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BANANA IN A NUTSHELL
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The Banana in question is Roseanne Liang, a young woman who’s grown up in a very traditional Chinese home with parents who’d prefer not to know that she has been in love for the last eight years with a white New Zealander. Liang has come close to being disowned by her parents more than once, but she’s maintained a certain decorum - returning home every morning before breakfast - and kept the peace. Liang opens her documentary account of her problem at the point when her boyfriend is gathering the nerve to ask her father for permission to marry her. Before the film is over he will have been obliged to learn to speak Mandarin Chinese before the father, who has spoken English for years, will even listen. Combining voice-over, staged flashbacks, interviews and reality TV-type coverage of the big showdown, Liang’s documentary is energised by her quick wit and a lively spirit of exasperation. Funny but serious at heart, this portrait of a young Chinese New Zealander’s cross-cultural navigation could hardly be more appealingly one-sided or more generously self-centred.
NEW ZEALAND FILMS AT RIALTO NEWMARKET
Rating: PG - Adult Themes, 55 mins
Genre: Documentary
Release Date: 23-02-2006 |
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