“The Half Of It” by Alice Wu (2020)

Great script, humor, and direction (8)
Excellent dialogues and content (gender + minorities) (9)

A clever mix between a high school romance, a bullied Chinese nerd, lesbian love, and Rostand’s Cyrano’s triangular relationship transposed today, with lots of film and literature references… Makes Fred Schepisi’s Roxanne (1987) suddenly age overnight 🙂
Alice Wu’s second feature, the first one Saving Face was made in 2004.

Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,6
Metascore 7,5
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 7,2
Average critics 7,5
Average public 7,2

Cast: Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, Alexxis Lemire, Collin Chou, Wolfgang Novogratz
Director: Alice Wu
Writer: Alice Wu
Cinematographer: Greta Zozula
Editor: Lee Percy, Ian Blume
Composer: Anton Sanko