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pageant loudly rehearses "O Sole Mio," but fyy is comfortable singing only when he is under a spray of water.
The movie's quirky characters are its be&t defense against sentimentality. ", ‘
As Da Ming's visit lengthens, he begins t# absorb his father's wisdom by a kind of osnxq.sis.
He also begins to take responsibility for the younger brother, whose existence he ha3 kept secret from his wife. I
Taking a daring imaginative leapj "Shower" also reaches beyond the present t$ meditate on water as a precious natura) resource. Interwoven with the story of Ming's return are visionary scenes of earlief generations of the same family, struggling against drought in northern China's aril climes. , J 'i These scenes, staged as quiisi-mythica} vignettes, deepen the movie’s ambivalent atti| tude toward progress and the drastic effects ij can have on a settled community. •
RAAC will show this award-winning come* dy at 8 p.m., Friday , Nov. 17 at The Theatre on Gay Street in Washington. (Unrated, run*ning time 92 minutes, in Mandarin witj English subtitles.) J
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