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Lilting

Directed by Hong Khaou

After a young man of Chinese-Cambodian heritage passes away, his isolated mother and his four-year male partner, who share no common language, struggle through their grief together.
Lilting is a beautifully restrained drama about grief, language and the fragile connection between a gay man and his late partner’s mother. Ben Whishaw and Cheng Pei-pei are excellent, and Hong Khaou finds enormous emotion in pauses, misunderstandings and things that cannot easily be translated.

Lilting

Directed by Hong Khaou

After a young man of Chinese-Cambodian heritage passes away, his isolated mother and his four-year male partner, who share no common language, struggle through their grief together.

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Lilting is a beautifully restrained drama about grief, language and the fragile connection between a gay man and his late partner’s mother. Ben Whishaw and Cheng Pei-pei are excellent, and Hong Khaou finds enormous emotion in pauses, misunderstandings and things that cannot easily be translated.

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