"Alive and brimming where most neorealist festival movies prefer the detached slow crawl that strains toward a vision of real life, Shih-Ching Tsou's solo directing debut "Left-Handed Girl" is born from a collaboration with a longtime friend, and a filmmaker familiar to most people reading this. Sean Baker co-writes (with Tsou), produces, and edits the Taiwanese filmmaker's Cannes Critics' Week premiere after Tsou, for decades, produced Baker outings like "Tangerine," " Red Rocket," and "The Florida Project.""
"Tsou applies the restless energy of her longtime collaborator's beloved social-realist works - portraits of men and women working against their class station to find a better living - to "Left-Handed Girl," which rests on the skillfully directed performance of a five-year-old girl (Nina Ye, a small child who effervescently commands the camera) in the lead. The movie, even when tracking the older daughter I-Ann (Shih-Yuan Ma) and mother Shu-Fen (Janel Tasi) who make up this heartwarming family trio,"
Netflix releases Left-Handed Girl in select theaters November 14 and on streaming November 28. Shih-Ching Tsou makes her solo directing debut on a film she co-wrote with longtime collaborator Sean Baker, who also produces and edits. The film premiered in Cannes Critics' Week. The narrative follows a Taiwanese family returning to Taipei to open a night-market noodle shop. The story centers on a five-year-old, Nina Ye, whose perspective guides the camera through wonderment and confusion. Older daughter I-Ann and mother Shu-Fen complete a heartwarming trio. The film channels social-realist energy and occasionally verges toward melodrama.
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