{"id":58541,"date":"2015-11-17T06:34:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T10:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=58541"},"modified":"2015-11-13T01:35:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T05:35:35","slug":"madam-phungs-last-journey-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=58541","title":{"rendered":"Madam Phung’s Last Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday, November 17 07pm and 09pm
\nAnthology Film Archives
\n32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003
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A former monk who left monastic life because \u201cI saw beautiful fags praying, and felt like running away,\u201d Phung is a canny businesswoman who got her start as a singer, and saved her money in the form of gold bars she would bury in the ground. Now she is something of a den mother to her largely transgender troupe \u2013 berating them when they drink or fight too much, warning them to stay out of trouble, and dealing with local police and occasionally hostile locals when necessary. It\u2019s the classic carny existence: long hours; setting up and tearing down the stage; exhorting the crowd to buy raffle tickets and play games; putting on a show. But the people we meet in MADAM PHUNG\u2019S LAST JOURNEY are not your ordinary fairground workers.<\/p>\n

This v\u00e9rit\u00e9 documentary takes us on a year-long ride with an itinerant troupe of cross-dressing performers led by Bich Phung as they travel the remote southern regions and central highlands of Vietnam. MADAM PHUNG\u2019S LAST JOURNEY also captures Phung at a critical moment in her life: now 40, she is haunted by fears of aging, concerned with fixing bad karma, and worried about what might happen to her troupe after she is gone.<\/p>\n

Tickets and more information available at: http:\/\/anthologyfilmarchives.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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