What begins as a panoramic portrait of music wrought from the Vietnamese diaspora emerges as a more personal journey: Ai reconnects with her estranged mother, who she’s long blamed for leaving ...
A survey of the immigrant New Wave music scene in the U.S. after the Vietnam War leads filmmaker Elizabeth Ai to make startling discoveries about her own past.
Although the Vietnamese call this type of music “new wave,” the rest of ... stage presence in a dazzling series of Paris by Night videos, her tight-fitting body suits and bikini tops, her ...