Oscar-winning director Sean Baker’s long-time producer Shih-Ching Tsou, who has also co-directed Take Out (2004) with him, makes her debut as a solo director with Left-Handed Girl. Set in Taipei and filled with pop colours, brittle women and an adorable girl, the 2025 production is a winner.
Five-year-old I-Ann (Shih-Yuan Ma), her mother Shu-Fen (Janet Tsai) and sister I-Jing (Nina Ye) relocate from the countryside to Taipei. Shu-Fen had left the city years ago and has returned with very little money – she is estranged from her husband – and family secrets.
Shu-Fen sets up a noodle stall at a night market. I-Jing finds work at one of the Taiwanese capital’s many betel nut stands, where attractive women are used to hawk products. The sexualisation of young women at workplaces – one of Baker’s themes in his own movies – is also one of the concerns of Left-Handed Girl. I-Jing’s relationship with her boyfriend and her precarious manner suggest a woman living on the edge.
Shu-Fen is fraught too, always worrying about money and about keeping up appearances before her wealthier parents and sisters. Only young I-Ann, who always has a ready smile and a spring in her step, seems to be free of worries, until her grandfather tells her that her...
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