Left-Handed Girl

2025 [CHINESE]

Action / Drama

16
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 98% · 109 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 84% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 7180 7.2K

dysfunctional family single mother meerkat taipei mother and daughter sisters

Director

Shih-Ching Tsou Photo
Shih-Ching Tsou

Top cast

Blaire Chang Photo
Blaire Chang as Xiao -hong
Ren Hanami Photo
Ren Hanami as Wu Hsueh-Mei
Akio Chen Photo
Akio Chen as Wen-Xong Chen
Shih-Yuan Ma Photo
Shih-Yuan Ma as I-Ann
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1007.64 MB
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Chinese 2.0
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1 hr 49 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Ikaraye 7 / 10

"Look mom"

Give that small girl the oscar already her acting is impressive her expressions and all, her alone is the career of this movie she does everything so good kudos to her.You may think this is just a boring family drama at first but I promise you it's more than that it takes a level of deep connection and secrets.After the final moment your view for the entire movie will definitely changed.I think the final 20 minutes of the movie sums up almost everything, Yet we couldn't get to know what happened between her and her ex husband I really wanted to know all the fuss behind that.
Reviewed by FilmdePool 8 / 10

The Left-Handed Girl follows a single mother and her two daughters returning to Taipei. The mother struggles with debt after her ex becomes gravely ill; the rebellious elder daughter gets involved with a married man; and the younger one becomes terrified of her "demonic" left hand after a tragic accident. The film captures their intertwined lives, as well as the mother's relationship with her own parents and siblings, revealing both humor and helplessness in the face of traditional Chinese views on family and gender.During the Q&A, director Shih-Ching Tsou shared her long creative journey with Sean Baker. Working on Baker's low-budget projects meant handling everything from costumes to props to extras, which Tsou described as attending "Sean Baker Film School." The film inherits something essential from Baker's cinema: compassion for its characters.Whether the mother, or the two daughters, each is portrayed with care and dignity. The film guides us through their shared struggles, buried secrets, and the emotional storm that erupts in the final sequence. That quiet compassion, which defines Baker's best work, shines here as well.One late-night scene stands out: the two sisters wandering through a Taipei night market. Without spoilers, the older girl says a line that suddenly changes how we see her. As she leads her younger sister through the market's stalls, we glimpse another side of her, a subtle revelation that also quietly foreshadows later developments. She suddenly feels more than just a stereotypical rebellious teen. Perhaps she is moved by her little sister's pure love for their mother, which prompts her sudden change of heart. (And the younger girl, sensing her mother's inner conflict, ends up doing something both touching and amusing.) Though the three of them rarely enjoy what we might call quality time together, their bond proves far stronger than it first appears. They affect and transform one another through love, that very emotion becomes the seed from which each character grows into fullness.
Reviewed by arungeorge13 8 / 10

Brilliant performances, great cinematography, and solid writing & direction! [+83%]

Take Out meets The Florida Project in a Shih-Ching Tsou & Sean Baker collaboration that's full of lively real-life energy and saturated colours. Tsou and Baker co-write, with the former directing and the latter editing, and extract the sweetest (and cutest) performance from Nina Ye, playing a young kid named I-Jing who's told (by her orthodox grandpa) that using the left hand leads to the devil's work. Her mom Shu-Fen (an excellent Janel Tsai) runs a noodle stand in the bustling Taipei night market, while her sister I-Ann (Shih-Yuan Ma) is an angsty teenager who works as a 'betel nut beauty.' Another key character here is Johnny (Brando Huang), a hawker whose shop is adjacent to the noodle shop, and gradually grows to be a spirited presence in the womens' lives.Films shot on the iPhone (Boyle's 28 Years Later, Soderbergh's Unsane, Baker's own Tangerine, and recently Neil Burger's Inheritance) have a unique aesthetic to them. A big chunk of the film revolves around I-Jing's little antics with the camera zooming in on her adorably expressive face, and coupled with Taipei's beautifully lived-in settings, the film is a sight to behold, even on smaller screens. The candid beauty of East Asian (and South East Asian, for that matter) countries is just absorbing as hell. The more you've travelled to these places, the more you can relate.Drama keeps brewing in the household between the three ladies, with money, integrity, and even the family tree being called into question. All three get well-etched characters and arcs. The climactic culmination even brings an unexpected reveal, but life keeps moving. The writing treats ACCEPTANCE as a true virtue, and sometimes in life, that's exactly how it is. The scene where I-Jing and I-Ann go back together to return I-Jing's stolen goods is SO SWEET.. might be my favourite scene in a film all year.
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