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      Queens of the Qing Dynasty

      Released May 5, 2023 2 hr. 2 min. Drama LGBTQ+ List
      88% 17 Reviews Tomatometer In a remote small town, a neurodivergent teen forms an unlikely rapport with an international student from Shanghai volunteering at the hospital where they are a patient. Between the two, a bond forms, cemented by their candid conversations, nightly text messages, and exchange of their deepest secrets. The boundaries of their friendship quickly expand into something special, altering their inner alchemy. Queens of the Qing Dynasty is a queer story that breaches the absurd and poetic, the platonic and the romantic. Both intimate and intense, it explores the intrinsic beauty and innate flaws of what it is to be human, the profundity of connection, and the vortex of mental illness. The electronic music score blurs between cinema foley and sound design to create a feeling of an alternate plane. Queens of the Qing Dynasty is an affectionate ode to women, asexuals, and neurodiverse and genderqueer individuals who exist beyond the norms of society by writer and director Ashley McKenzie (Werewolf, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival). Read More Read Less

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      Cath Clarke Guardian It’s a disorientating, unrelaxing two-hour experience, but rewarding. Rated: 3/5 Nov 14, 2023 Full Review Beatrice Loayza New York Times The wonderfully bizarre Canadian drama “Queens of the Qing Dynasty” understands queerness the way that bell hooks did: as a “self that is at odds with everything around it.” May 4, 2023 Full Review Alexandra Heller-Nicholas AWFJ.org An emotionally intelligent portrait of two lost souls who find each other, Queens of the Qing Dynasty is a charming work of subtle power. May 1, 2023 Full Review Matthew Creith IN Magazine By the end of Queens of the Qing Dynasty, we are left with a transformative relationship that unravels to a haunting electropop score. Jul 25, 2023 Full Review Payton McCarty-Simas Film Inquiry Through each other’s sympathetic eyes, in this winning, queer coming-of-age tale that still feels in a category all its own, these two lonely women become queens. May 13, 2023 Full Review Paddy Mulholland Spectrum Culture Ashley McKenzie’s second feature has style and compassion in droves but suffers from narrative inertia and dwindling energy. May 11, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis In a remote small town, a neurodivergent teen forms an unlikely rapport with an international student from Shanghai volunteering at the hospital where they are a patient. Between the two, a bond forms, cemented by their candid conversations, nightly text messages, and exchange of their deepest secrets. The boundaries of their friendship quickly expand into something special, altering their inner alchemy. Queens of the Qing Dynasty is a queer story that breaches the absurd and poetic, the platonic and the romantic. Both intimate and intense, it explores the intrinsic beauty and innate flaws of what it is to be human, the profundity of connection, and the vortex of mental illness. The electronic music score blurs between cinema foley and sound design to create a feeling of an alternate plane. Queens of the Qing Dynasty is an affectionate ode to women, asexuals, and neurodiverse and genderqueer individuals who exist beyond the norms of society by writer and director Ashley McKenzie (Werewolf, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival).
      Director
      Ashley McKenzie
      Screenwriter
      Ashley McKenzie
      Distributor
      Factory 25
      Production Co
      Hi-Vis Film
      Genre
      Drama, LGBTQ+
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      May 5, 2023, Limited