Daughter's Daughter (2024)

Original title

女兒的女兒

Directed by

Huang Xi

Genre

drama

Country

Taiwan

Runtime

2h 06m

Rated

IIA

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A recently retired woman in Taiwan loses her daughter in an accident. She then has to decide what to do with a frozen embryo that her daughter left behind.

melancholictendercontemplativegroundedquietly intenseemotionalpoignantslow-burn

What happens

Daughter's Daughter (Chinese: 女兒的女兒; pinyin: Nǚ'ér de nǚ'ér) is a 2024 Taiwanese family drama film directed and written by Huang Xi, marking her second feature after Missing Johnny (2017), and co-produced by Hou Hsiao-hsien and Sylvia Chang. Chang also stars in a lead role, alongside Karena Lam and Eugenie Liu, with the film following a recently retired mother (Chang) who loses her daughter (Liu) in an accident and has to make decisions about a frozen embryo her daughter left behind. Pre-production for the film began in 2018, with Sylvia Chang attached to the project from the outset. The screenplay was developed over five years and greenlit in November 2023 after winning the Golden Harvest Award. Principal photography took place from December 2023 to January 2024 in Taipei and New York City, and the film was showcased in the Golden Horse Goes to Cannes section of the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May 2024. The film had its world premiere in competition for the Platform Prize at the 49th Toronto International Film Festival on 12 September 2024, where Sylvia Chang received an honorable mention, and was theatrically released in Taiwan on 22 November. It received five nominations in the 61st Golden Horse Awards, with Huang Xi winning for Best Original Screenplay. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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