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Review in San Francisco Bay Guardian

"humorous and, well, graceful exploration of Asian American women's identity."

The Grace Lee Project (Grace Lee, USA, 2005) A natural extension of the stereotypical Western perception of those inscrutible "Orientals" ? "they all look alike anyway" ? The Grace Lee Project finds a Columbia, Mo., filmmaker of the same name tracking down model-minority amazing Graces throughout the country in this humorous and, well, graceful exploration of Asian American women's identity. Digging below typical descriptors like nice, smart, and quiet, the moviemaker happily discovers that Graces are far from predictable as she learns about an octogenarian Chinese American activist in Detroit's black community, a Korean American TV news reporter in Honolulu, and an overachieving firebug who once tried to burn down her S.F. school.

Original article: http://www.sfbg.com/39/23/art_film_takes.html