Direction: Alan Yang
Country: USA
Tigertail, the quiet debut feature of American writer/director/producer Alan Yang, is rudimentary but honest. It’s a bitter immigrant song immersed in simplicity and sacrifice, whose interest decreases with the time. Patiently structured with numerous flashbacks and temporal leaps, the narrative never succumbs to the melodrama artifice, providing the right tonal balance to favor connectedness with the viewer. It might be forgettable and meager, but the truth is that Yang never loses contact with his characters and their emotional states.
