In 'Oh Lucy!,' A Woman Leaps, Wig-First, Across A Cultural Divide
In writer-director Atsuko Hirayanagi's movie, a depressed Tokyo office drone discovers an impulsive American persona when she takes an ESL course. The result is "quiet, and a little devastating."
We Americans have certain ... ideas about the rest of the world, informed by movies, news reports and/or good old-fashioned prejudice. But it's important to remember the rest of the world has ideas about us, too. For example, that we're all loudmouthed "Wassssap?"-ing deadbeats who violate each other's personal space on a regular basis.
In , a very smart indie drama about cross-cultural exchange, these particular qualities emerge during an "American English" class in Tokyo, one held in a cavernous, neon-lit studio that likely doubles as a
