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Left-Handed Girl: a Taiwanese comedy with a wild, whirling sense of momentum
['Nick Bradshaw', 'Adam Nayman', 'Tom Charity']
BFI | Features and reviews
That’s the well-trodden and evocative theme of Shih-Ching Tsou’s debut feature Left Handed Girl – a contemporary drama which wears its fairytale elements fashionably on its sleeves.
The title refers to five-year old I-Jing (Nina Ye), an adorable little girl in thrall to a bizarre notion: that the Devil has somehow possessed her southpaw.
The culprit behind this premature existential crisis is I-Jing’s elderly grandfather, who doesn’t realise the consequences of his own poker-faced teasing.
Things get worse when her left hand accidentally figures into a legitimate – if comic – tragedy: one with a body count.
Left-Handed Girl (2025)Shu-Fen’s night market makes for a fascinating labyrinthine backdrop: it’s a haven for eccentric hard-sell artists, and Tsou cultivates an atmosphere of gentle, rubbernecking curiosity.
['girl'
'devil'
'movie'
'mother'
'women'
'storytelling'
'things'
'ijing'
'lefthanded'
'left'
'tsou'
'digits'
'review'
'theme']