Montreal, My Beautiful

It’s been years since Feng Xia immigrated to Montreal, a city whose language still keeps her at the edge of things. Her life has been arranged around other people: a loveless marriage, two children, and a family shop. Until she signs up for French class, and one small act of independence leads to another. Camille, a younger Québécoise who’s unafraid of wanting what she wants, enters her life like a door left open. Their secret affair draws Feng Xia into a summer of forbidden tenderness, while the marriage and family she has carefully held together begin to shift under her feet. Xiaodan He’s landmark queer drama gives Joan Chen one of her richest recent roles: a woman discovering, long after she thought the question was closed, that desire has not finished with her.