Heard that this movie will be going to the International Asian Film Festival in San Francisco, from March 15 thru 25, 2007. If you are in that area then, good luck in getting to see it.
shareAsian American Media, the organizer of San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, has confirmed that Dark Matter will be screening at the festival. Ticket and venue information will become available February 13th.
shareDark Matter will screen March 22nd, 2007 at the closing gala at the SFIAAFF festival. There will be a director/actor Q&A session with the audience in between the movie and Reception. Tickets still available.
http://www.asianamericanfilmfestival.org/2007/films-events/film-detail/?i=23
25th SF International Asian American Film Festival
by David Lamble
Dark Matter
Liu Ye, the beautiful young actor who stole the hearts of queer filmgoers as the sensitive gay Chinese student in Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu, shares the screen with Meryl Streep and Aidan Quinn in director Chen Shi-Zheng's (written by Billy Shebar) exploration of the tragic collision between the dreams of a Chinese physics student and the harsh reality of scientific politics in American academia. Based on a true incident in which a Chinese exchange student went on a shooting rampage at a school in the States, the filmmakers show how the impossibly idealistic Liu Xing gradually becomes disillusioned, then delusional as his American dream unravels in a miasma of cultural misunderstanding and professional jealousy in the impossibly wide-open spaces of a Western university (the film was shot in Utah).
Liu Xing and his fellow exchange students are taken by Streep's den-mother character to visit a Western ghost town, where the young men get to indulge their fantasies of having a make-believe gunfight in which all the participants fall to the ground make-believe dead. This scene resonates tragically at story's end, seamlessly weaving fantasy and reality, as well as the often impossibly conflicting cultural imperatives of two proud societies. (Closing night, 3/22, Palace)