Sisterhood (Chinese: 骨妹; Jyutping: Gwaat Mui) is a 2016 Macau-Hong Kong drama film directed by Tracy Choi and starring Gigi Leung, Fish Liew and Jennifer Yu. The film had its North American premiere at the Toronto LGBT Film Festival on 28 May 2017.
Premise
In the 1990s, Sei finds herself a job at a massage parlor in Macau and befriends Ling, an older woman who is a single mother. On the eve of Macau's handover to China, they have a fight which sets them on separate paths: Sei moves to Taiwan to marry a guesthouse owner while Ling stays in Macau with her infant son. Fifteen years later, Sei, now in her late thirties, learns that Ling has died. She decides to return to Macau to revisit her past, in a familiar yet very different Macau.
Cast
- Gigi Leung as Sei
- Fish Liew as Teenage Sei
- Jennifer Yu as Ling
- Lee Lee-zen as Chen Chung
- Kevin Chu as Teenage Chen Chung
- Stephanie Che as #38
- Panther Chan as Teenage #38
- Teresa Mak as #44
- Eliz Lao as Teenage #44
- Elena Kong as Lai
- Dino Acconci as Massage parlor manager
- Louis Castro as Bakery boss
- Terence Siufay as Restaurant owner
- Ai Wai
Soundtrack
Featured songs
Reception
Accolades
References
Further reading
- Gray, Madeleine (August 23, 2017). "Just Friends? "Sisterhood" And The Queer Female Experience". Curve.
- Kai, Poo Yee (27 February 2017). "Debut director catches the changing face of Macau". China Entertainment News.
- "Lesbian film director Tracy Choi talks about her new film《Sisterhood》and the reason why she used a massage parlor as her main set". LalaTai. November 21, 2017.
- "Sisterhood – love, loss and longing in Macau". Screen NSW. September 21, 2017.
External links
- Sisterhood at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
- Sisterhood at IMDb
- Sisterhood at Douban (in Chinese)
- Sisterhood at Mtime.com (archived) (in Chinese)
