Blue Cha Cha

7/14/2015

The film begins with Ah Yu, played by Taiwanese singer **Tarcy Su**, being released from prison. We aren’t told why she was there or how long she was in for. She makes her way to the home of a weathered and motherly woman named An-an (Yi-Ching Lu) whom she had come to know in prison. An-an takes her in and gives her job at the hostess bar she operates. After an arranged date doesn’t pan out the way Ah Yu expected, she quits the bar and takes a job at a computer factory. Her relationship with a young supervisor she meets there, along with her ongoing and anchoring relationship with An-an, is the meat of this film. _Blue Cha Cha_ requires patience. That’s code for it being an art house film which moves slowly and doesn’t offer a lot of detail as to why things are happening. Beyond an ambi