Daughter's Daughter

Daughter’s Daughter is that kind of quiet but emotionally loaded film that sneaks up on you. Directed by Huang Xi (aka the genius behind Twisted Strings—which I loved btw), it dives into the messy, layered world of a multi-generational family of women trying to hold it…

Realkinoshit

A little overlong and unfocused but it’s a decent enough study of family dynamics and Sylvia Chang is really fantastic. She carries the emotional core of the film so beautifully even when it stumbles a bit with how much it’s juggling at once. Far from perfect but moving…

CalvinLaw

Huang Xi is clearly a smart director because she built a whole movie out of Sylvia Chang. Reviewed as part of the TIFF coverage at The Chinese Cinema.

Sean Gilman

很少看到表演調度那麼差的片，電梯吵架拍得好差、開場的醫院病床也好怪，所有人都塞在那邊節奏好奇怪。張艾嘉還順便吐槽「你們一家人好怪站在那邊幹嘛」（我：對啊！！！） 整部片少數成功的表演場次大概只有張艾嘉跟林嘉欣在Airbnb吵架跟茶樓最後的坦白那兩場，但很可惜的是，那兩場戲的奏效是因為兩位金馬影后真的本身對戲拋接就夠好看了，跟導演真的沒什麼關係。而且，張艾嘉只要沒有跟林嘉欣跟馬汀尼老師對戲，那幾場戲就會變得很不平衡。 劇本有趣但執行很差，剪輯、配樂、攝影我全部都不喜歡。調性控制我也不太欣賞（導演在映後說本來想寫喜劇，但還真的，奶奶在片中的所有…

TOYA

Sylvia Chang is one of the greatest actresses currently working; something you'd see from her work in Hong Kong and helping further the Taiwanese New Wave. There's a stronger case being made for that with her work in Daughter's Daughter, in which she's carrying the movie on…

Jaime Rebanal 🇵🇸

放了很多設定：同志、人工生殖、代孕、未成年懷孕、送養領養、甚至是胚胎的生命權之類的whatever......然後沒有一個被好好處理。一個比一個巨大的Issue被化為扁平的設定堆疊、塞滿整部片，再靠張艾嘉的演技和剪輯想方設法串起來，看似有模有樣。到電影的尾聲還在期待拜託哪裡來一個反轉救救這部片，讓它有一個可以討論的核心論述吧，我知道女同志很酷、華僑很酷、單身阿姨很酷、也知道每種身份下都有難處。但是在經歷這些錯綜複雜的難題後竟然是停在「不生會後悔，總之先請代理孕母生下來，『生命會自己找到出路』。」到最後的最後只剩下「生育」被處理成「生殖」、「關係…

hana

TIFF 2024 Film #28 Not surprisingly, DAUGHTER’S DAUGHTER is all about mother-daughter relationships. Jin, wonderfully played by Syliva Chang, must confront reality and decisions as she is faced with her mother’s dimension, the death of her youngest daughter Zuer, her…

Leesah Sea

TIFF 2024 #10: "You'll take a gamble..... and you'll win." Daughter's Daughter directed by Huang Xi is a film that revolves around a mother daughter relationship. Unfortunate events take place & Jin is left with an incredibly tough choice to make. This film was a slow…

Andrea Sue 🧇

some heavy themes in here and the plot sounded interesting to me but unfortunately, it became draggy for me and sylvia chang’s performance was really the only one making me feel for the story 🌕2024 ranked

shi qin