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MOVIE REVIEW
Left-Handed Girl (2025)
Perhaps best known as Sean Baker’s codirector and cowriter on 2004’s “Take Out” and producer on his five other projects, Tsou Shih-ching marks her first solo directorial outing two decades later with “Left-Handed Girl,” premiering during Critics’ Week at Cannes. Her new film shares a vibe with Mr. Baker’s oeuvre – which is not terribly surprising given that he serves as its cowriter, coproducer and editor. But Mr. Baker’s handprints seem more visible on the stylistic choices. The plot itself is a culturally specific critique on the latent sexism in families of a certain demographic in Taiwan.
