VengeanceOfThePhoenixSisters is a low-budget, breezy, pulpy minor classic of the wuxia genre that offers easy feminist escapist fun, making its North American premiere at the 10thOldSchoolKungFuFest.
is an archetype and an anomaly at the same time. It's an archetypal model for the wuxia swordswoman story in many ways, and an anomaly in how unusual it still is today. It's a breezy, gleefully pulpy potboiler so elegant in its simplicity, yet with so many layers to it.Vengeance of the Phoenix Sisters
is simple. Bandits attack a lawyer and his wife for revenge, but his three young daughters are spirited away by loyal servants and raised in secret. Fifteen years later, the sisters return, separately, coincidentally at the same time, now accomplished swordswomen, seeking revenge on the bandits who have grown rich and fat and still terrorizing the town. United, they work their way through the bad guys, of course. Festival notes from the 10, of wuxia films.
, which kicked off the Wuxia boom in Taiwan. Vengeance of the Phoenix Sisters is like the punkish younger sister of King Hu's more austere films: fast, cheap, breezy but still gleefully entertaining. If there's one thing wuxia movies have done first, it's having female warriors who are equals of men. More than any other genre, wuxia has been the first to unapologetically embrace swordwomen as a normal fact of life in the jianghu. These women passed the Bechdel Test decades before the Bechdel Test even came along. They also flirted with gender issues before it even the norm in Western fandom.
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