Ling is a perpetual victim. And Chen doesn't give her many interesting options.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 30, 2021

a portrait of a repressed and oppressed woman learning to chip away at her invisible confines, and within that is a story of generations; the end of life and the beginning of life, and the often messy complexities of everything that happens in between.

| Apr 29, 2021

Chen's moody-looking feature, set during the monsoon season, aches with repression. It's also as outraged as "Promising Young Woman" over how men mistreat women.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 29, 2021

While Chen's refusal to subvert commonplace elements is disappointing, there's a sharp note of sorrowful, aching understanding running through the protagonists' shared ordeal.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 23, 2021

Chen patiently, if predictably, builds toward an abrupt and rather shocking consummation.

| Apr 22, 2021

Without artificial-seeming contrivance, Chen masterfully builds resonance through rhyming scenes, repeated images and reoccurring dialogue.

| Sep 11, 2019

A film that can feel weighed down by its own soggy seriousness, even if it draws sharp characterizations along with a disparaging critique of Singapore's sexist upper-class citizenry.

| Sep 8, 2019