Daughter's Daughter
Director: Huang Xi
2024 / 126min / DCP
Sylvia Chang has one of the finest roles in her formidable career in Huang’s Golden Horse Award–winning intergenerational drama, co-produced by Chang and Hou Hsiao-hsien. Chang’s Jin Aixia is the middle-aged mother of two adult daughters—one, Fan Zuer (Eugenie Liu), raised by her in Taipei, the other, Emma (Karena Lam), given up for adoption and raised in New York—who, after Fan’s tragic death, finds herself the legal guardian of the embryo that her daughter, in the midst of planning for a pregnancy via in vitro fertilization, had left behind. Tender but never maudlin, with a taste (and talent) for structural experiment, Huang’s second feature confirms the writer-director as one of the most impressive up-and-coming talents in Taiwanese cinema.
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