Lilting

Strand Releasing | Release Date: September 26, 2014

6.2	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Ratings

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foxgroveSep 26, 2014

Lilting is slow to the point of almost stopping. Here we have yet another film purporting to be full of the meaning of life and love whilst nearly sending its audience to sleep. The story structure is uneven, and it is only really due to theLilting is slow to the point of almost stopping. Here we have yet another film purporting to be full of the meaning of life and love whilst nearly sending its audience to sleep. The story structure is uneven, and it is only really due to the performance of Ben Whishaw that the film manages to survive at all. He is usually good, sometimes brilliant, and here what emotion there is he elicits effortlessly in two or three beautiful moments. Peter Bowles is employed to provide an accommodating audience with some easy laughs, which are actually very resistible. However, one dinner scene is quite funny. The ending is a damp squib as it tells us absolutely nothing about where the characters are going.… Expand

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lasttimeisawNov 4, 2014

The debut film from Cambodian director Hong Khaou, which is indeed a UK production, pairs the outed actor Ben Whishaw with Chinese actress Pei-Pei Cheng, who is the Kungfu heroine in her prime and has launched a strong comeback in Ang Lee’sThe debut film from Cambodian director Hong Khaou, which is indeed a UK production, pairs the outed actor Ben Whishaw with Chinese actress Pei-Pei Cheng, who is the Kungfu heroine in her prime and has launched a strong comeback in Ang Lee’s masterful CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (2000, 10/10) as the villainous Jade Fox. And the story is rather plain-speaking, Whishaw is Richard, a young gay man loses his boyfriend Kai (Leung) in a car accident, and he has to take care of Kai’s mother Junn (Pei-Pei), who has been put in an elderly house since Kai never comes out to her.

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