It is wonderfully engaging and entertaining while treating a universal theme in an elegant and accessible way.
American distribution sucks.
While the bane of many a director's project has traditionally been finding financing, all panelists seemed to agree that getting released has recently proven the more difficult task, as even good reviews don't help. While Ebert agreed with Wang that satellite distribution would get films around the multiplex gridlock, not everyone agreed that it would slash distribution costs. Distributors feel the need for a film to deliver a certain way so they can make the money back. Jennifer Jason Leigh noted that digital distribution is still incredibly expensive even as cameras improve. In America, everything is monopolized.