Everything in Mak Yuen-Ting’s life is about to change. She will soon join her fiancé’s well-to-do family. She wants her newly and unhappily retired mother, Chau-Kuen, to sell her apartment and move to the Luogang suburbs. Yuen-Ting (played by Lin Dongping) has to figure out how to reveal the truth about her background: that her father Mak Ka-fai (Tai-bo) fled Guangzhou 20 years ago after running up debts, returning to a family he kept secret in Hong Kong. That’s why Chau-Kuen (Pan Jie) won’t participate in Yuen-Ting’s wedding: “I don’t want people to see me that way”––a woman cheated and abandoned.
Borrowed Time, the feature debut from director Choy Ji, is both a voyage of discovery and journey into the past. Yuen-Ting grows up harboring resentment for a world she never knew, even as her own life in Guangzhou has evolved into something she no longer recognizes.
Borrowed Time, the feature debut from director Choy Ji, is both a voyage of discovery and journey into the past. Yuen-Ting grows up harboring resentment for a world she never knew, even as her own life in Guangzhou has evolved into something she no longer recognizes.
- 10/20/2023
- by Daniel Eagan
- The Film Stage
“Father to Son” is one of those movies that take its time simmering in order to tell the story. While the pacing is slow, it never gets boring. Due to its characteristic editing, jumping from one temporary context to another continuously and without giving clear explanations, the film can become confusing at times, and even more at the beginning when the viewer does not stop asking questions. It is true that once the movie is seen, it does not leave many answers, but it does leave a clear message. The relationship between father and son is very well reflected, even if they are distant. Father to Son is directed by Hsiao Ya-Chuan, produced by Hou Hsiao-Hsien and starring Michael Jq Huang, Aria Wang, Fu Meng-Po, Chuang Kai-Hsun, Samuel K and Lu Hsueh-Feng among others.
“Father to Son” is screening at Five Flavours
If “Father to Son” stands out in something,...
“Father to Son” is screening at Five Flavours
If “Father to Son” stands out in something,...
- 11/16/2018
- by Pedro Morata
- AsianMoviePulse
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