Blue Sun Palace

Name: Blue Sun Palace
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: April 25, 2025
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 83

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Dekanalog | Release Date: April 25, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: Within the confines of a massage parlor in Flushing, Queens, Amy (Wu Ke-Xi) and Didi (Haipeng Xu) navigate romance, happiness, and the obligations of family thousands of miles from home. Despite the physical and emotional toll their work extracts, the women who live at the parlor have fortified an impenetrable sisterhood. When tragedyWithin the confines of a massage parlor in Flushing, Queens, Amy (Wu Ke-Xi) and Didi (Haipeng Xu) navigate romance, happiness, and the obligations of family thousands of miles from home. Despite the physical and emotional toll their work extracts, the women who live at the parlor have fortified an impenetrable sisterhood. When tragedy strikes on Lunar New Year, Amy is forced to consider her own destiny for the first time ever. Despite finding solace in the company of Cheung (Lee Kang-sheng), Amy must leave the city and prioritize her own spirit in order to survive.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 116 min

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Tim Grierson

Apr 24, 2025

Each of the three leads in Blue Sun Palace dreams of a transcendence that may never come — Tsang’s superb debut puts viewers on their side, even though we see how long the odds are against them. Read full review

Alissa Wilkinson

Apr 24, 2025

It’s often said that New York is a city of neighborhoods, little galaxies contained within themselves, but the truth is more granular: We walk by a dozen massage parlors like the one in Blue Sun Palace every day, and never dream the whole cosmos of human emotion is inside. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Tomris Laffly

Apr 25, 2025

Tsang has made a small, affecting, and studiously minimalist film here, with lived-in and tactile visual and design elements signaling a major auteur in the making. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Apr 24, 2025

In massage parlor reception areas and backrooms, working-class restaurants and karaoke bars, Tsang and her strong cast, with superb contributions from production designer Evaline Wu Huang, have captured something evanescent and life-giving, and grounded it in kitchen clatter and workplace chatter, the gritty day-to-day. Read full review

Alissa Simon

Apr 24, 2025

More akin to European art films than to American indies, “Palace” prioritizes mood over plot. Tsang allows her experienced actors plenty of breathing space to convey the melancholy of their existence in situations where dreams are more likely to be deferred than to come true, but are necessary nevertheless. Read full review

Kimberley Jones

May 15, 2025

What it conveys, quite beautifully, is the essentialness in sharing your life with others, through joy and grief. Read full review

Screen Rant Nick Bythrow

Apr 24, 2025

With a deliberate pacing that is aided by great performances and stellar cinematography, the movie does a phenomenal job at showcasing the human struggles that follow tragedy. Read full review

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