Twilight’s Kiss
Leaving September 30
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1h 32m
Directed by Ray Yeung • 2019 • Hong Kong
Starring Tai Bo, Ben Yuen Foo-wah, Patra Au Ga-man
This supremely sensitive romance is the moving story of two closeted married men who find unexpected connection in their twilight years. One day Pak (Tai Bo), seventy, a Hong Kong taxi driver who refuses to retire, meets Hoi (Ben Yuen Foo-wah), sixty-five, a retired single father, in a park. Despite years of social and personal pressure, they are proud of the families they have created through hard work and determination. Yet in that brief initial encounter, something is unleashed in them which had been suppressed for so many years. As both men recount their personal histories, they also contemplate a possible future together.
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