But “Blue Sun Palace” is gentler, with the cinematographer Norm Li’s camera drifting around the space, capturing the play of light or air on a curtain. This first section is a prelude.

Blue Sun Palace is a deliberately paced drama which, while reflective of the difficulties grief can bring, also displays life's complicated layers.

All her characters are trying to make the best of a bad situation, and the slow-core romance of “Blue Sun Palace” blossoms into something much thornier and more irreconcilable at the end of ...

And you play it and like, 'Oh man ... but it's just not happening for me." He declared of New Blue Sun, "This is the realest thing that's coming right now. Not to say that I would never do ...