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By Rosie Day
Rappahannock News Writer
If you liked "The Full Monty" and "II Postino', you’ll love "Shower.”
"Shower” is an updated version of the parable of the prodigal son. Director Zhang Yang's sweet but serious comedy offers an uplifting and witty variation on this scenario. Set in contemporary Beijing, the movie tells the story of Da Ming, a sharply dressed young businessman who returns from the southern Chinese region of Shenzhen to visit his aged father, Master Liu.
For decades Master Liu, whose health is fragile, has run a bathhouse in a dilapidated district of Beijing. His right-hand man is his mentally retarded young son, Er Ming, who takes a childlike delight in all the ritualized sloshing.
The bathhouse has never been a fancy place, it is just a local hangout where thesien come to bathe and relax, gamble, play "dominoes and wash some clothes.
Lolling about in one of Master Liu s steamy pools is a little like attending a languid group therapy session in which people confide their secrets and work out their anxieties.
In one running subplot, a shy, chubby teenager preparing to appear in a local
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