Anna Chi

The Disappearance of Mrs. Wu is director Anna Chi’s lighthearted look at intergenerational grandmother-daughter-granddaughter love punctuated by sly shenanigans, aided and abetted by the matriarch’s caretaker from Ireland, a should-have-been chanteuse who loves her employer like family. In contrast, the rest of the Wu family is consumed by time-wasting guilt and misplaced worry. So it goes in “=Mrs. Wu, where culture, sexuality, and shame are wrapped in a thin dumpling skin and served with a side of often ignored dim sum wisdom from the titular nana, enlightened by the reality that she has little time left to get things in order before life’s final curtain call.