The Abortionist (HKIFF48)
Genre
SPECIAL PROGRAMME
Release Date
7 Apr 2024 (Sun)
Category
--- (HK), ---(Macau)
Running Time
113 Minutes
Language
Cantonese, Putonghua
Subtitle
English
Director
Fruit Chan
Cast
Bai Ling, Ng Wing-sze, Larine Tang
Synopsis
In a reunion with Chan after modern horror classic Dumplings, Bai Ling gives another tour de force performance in Chan’s morally complex drama. Aside from her day job as a Tai Chi instructor, Jane also moonlights as a blackmarket abortionist. Though she has helped dozens of troubled young woman, Jane can’t connect with her religious teenage daughter, who sees her mother’s profession as a mortal sin. A fiercely bold, original work that constantly defies expectations, Chan’s follow-up to Three Husbands is just as thematically ambitious and allegorical as its predecessor.
In a reunion with Chan after modern horror classic Dumplings, Bai Ling gives another tour de force performance in Chan’s morally complex drama. Aside from her day job as a Tai Chi instructor, Jane also moonlights as a blackmarket abortionist. Though she has helped dozens of troubled young woman, Jane can’t connect with her religious teenage daughter, who sees her mother’s profession as a mortal sin. A fiercely bold, original work that constantly defies expectations, Chan’s follow-up to Three Husbands is just as thematically ambitious and allegorical as its predecessor.
