BLUE GATE CROSSING (LANSE DA MEN) Asian New Classics

Unexpectedly moving, Yee Chih-Yen’s BLUE GATE CROSSING proves that sometimes the simplest beginnings-a high school love affair-can lead to the most complicated, and satisfying, endings.

Kerou and Yuezhen are high school girls who seem destined to be friends forever until the arrival of Shihao-guitar player, swimmer, Scorpio and handsome loner, the kind of guy who has been exciting girls for longer than anyone can remember. In different ways, both girls fall for him, opening up a gulf between them that challenges their friendship while reshaping their own identities and sexual awareness.

BLUE GATE CROSSING brilliantly encapsulates the dizziness of a first love, while, even more strikingly, evoking the boundless confusion of growing up.