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THE ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL: 1997

By | March 1997

After watching these three offerings from the SFIAAF, I felt so ridiculously fragile and misunderstood, so “The Second Sex,” so… subaltern…

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THE ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL: 1997

After watching these three offerings from the SFIAAF, I felt so ridiculously fragile and misunderstood, so "The Second Sex," so... subaltern. The gravity...

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