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The Treatment

Wayne Wang - Web Exclusive

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2008

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Director Wayne Wang (Joy Luck Club) not only moves from studio films such as Maid in Manhattan to indies such as Smoke, but also blurs the line between truth and fiction. That's the heart of his new film, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.

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0:00.0

From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

0:14.0

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You can also hear the show at KCRW.com.

0:19.0

My guest, director Wayne Wang, moves more comfortably with more ease from studio films

0:24.1

to independent films than any director I can think of.

0:26.7

His studio films, of course, include because of when Dixie made in Manhattan.

0:30.2

But his impact for many of us has been the independent films such as Smoke, and the Seminole

0:35.1

Chan is missing from 1982.

0:37.1

His new film is A Thousand News of Good

0:39.3

Prayers. Wayne, first of all, thanks so much for doing the show. Well, thank you for having me.

0:43.8

It's a really tough movie to describe for people, but I've got to ask you, you can kind of lay out

0:48.8

what the movie's really about besides communication, which is what your films are always about,

0:53.4

and people kind of talking past each other and not really listening.

0:56.8

But specifically, what's a thousand years ago, prayers about?

1:00.3

It's about a father and a daughter relationship,

1:03.3

and they went through the cultural revolution,

1:05.7

and there were a lot of things that happened then,

1:09.3

which is very difficult for them to deal with, and all of that

1:12.5

catches up with them now years later when the daughter has moved to America and she's

1:17.8

gotten her divorce. So it really is about, you know, a woman from China who's trying to forget

1:26.5

her past and she moves here to America,

1:29.4

she finds a new language and a new culture, as she says in the film.

1:32.5

And the father comes in and thinks that she's ill because she got a divorce.

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