Those hanging on the prospect of a ‘third act’ to Roseanne Liang’s deeply personal, yet universally defiant account of cross-cultural love ought to relish the documentary’s recent release to DVD, graced rather aptly with a 30-minute epilogue to Roseanne and Stephen’s constant forge. The idea, however, that the couple will forever struggle to gain the approval of traditional Chinese parents seems almost void in the wake of this genuine happy ending: not only a great wedding video, but something of an antidote to the cultural cringe of the film's ‘banana’ trademark. Defining assimilated Chinese as yellow on the outside and white on the inside, the epilogue's euphoric endpoint all but evaporates this notion of cultural confusion or duplicity, conquering it (as cheesy as it sounds) with the power of two people in love. Last we heard, Roseanne is turning her story into a feature film.

Courtesy of the director herself, The Lumière Reader has six copies of Banana in a Nutshell on DVD to giveaway. UPDATED 7/3/07: Congratulations to B. Lea, H. Wells, K. Corner, N. Loh, O. Yalcintas and T. Ng Chie. Your DVDs are in the mail.

Visit banana-film.com for more information on the film and DVD, or read Tze Ming Mok’s original review of Banana in a Nutshell...[here]