Starts 6/28 @ Film Forum in NYC Michael Kang's debut feature, in the words of Variety, signals the arrival of a singularly promising filmmaker. With extraordinary subtlety of feeling, THE MOTEL tells a coming-of-age tale of chubby, 13-year-old Ernest (Jeffrey Chyau), a second generation Chinese-American, who helps run his mother's sleazy rent-by-the hour motel. His relationship with teenage Christine (Samantha Futerman, who played the young lead in MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA), who works at her ...