Maria Wang (Cheng Pei Pei), 60, reveres her workaholic accountant husband, Bing (Tzi Ma).
Meditation Park is a 2017 Canadian drama film directed by Mina Shum. Meditation Park follows Maria, a 60-year-old grandmother who holds reverence and obedience for Bing, the patriarch of a Chinese-Canadian family in Vancouver.
A tender, achingly tangible story about a woman's latent self-discovery, Meditation Park is a gem propelled by Cheng Pei Pei whose wildly expressive face fires emotion straight to the heart. She remains respectful and courteous to Bing in her domestic livelihood, but one day, she discovers an orange g-string in her husband’s coat while doing laundry. Meditation comes alive through a growing capacity to release our habitual entanglement in the stories and plans, conflicts and worries that make up the small sense of self, and to rest in awareness. The film opened the 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival and was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. Discussion following with director Mina Shum. The Vancouver-set Meditation Park stars Sandra Oh, who long before she became a household name from the ER of Grey's Anatomy, got her real start in Shum's Double Happiness in 1994. Approaching their senior years, married couple Maria and Bing Wang emigrated to Vancouver from Hong Kong forty years ago, they living on the working class east side of the city steps away from Hastings Park. MEDITATION PARK is a touching tale of an Asian-Canadian grandmother who arrives at her own declaration of personal independence after discovering her husband's infidelity. A tender, achingly tangible story about a woman's latent self-discovery, Meditation Park is a gem propelled by Cheng Pei Pei whose wildly expressive face fires emotion straight to the heart. Summaries An aging woman questions her life after suspecting her husband is having an affair. Meditation Park PG | 1h 34min | Drama | 9 March 2018 (Canada) An aging woman questions her life after suspecting her husband is having an affair.