Review | Film review: Sisterhood – Macau-set melodrama a poignant tale of lesbian love, loss and longing
Tracy Choi serves up a touching tale of a woman returning to a Macau that she doesn’t recognise to try to piece together a past she can’t get back
3/5 stars
Fifteen years after she moved to Taiwan to marry a hostel owner, Macau-raised orphan Sei (Gigi Leung Wing-kei) remains haunted by her abrupt breakup with best friend Ling around the turn of the millennium. When news of Ling’s death arrives, Sei, now a chronic alcoholic, finally decides to travel back to her hometown and piece together their intimate past together in the late 1990s.
The film comes to life during the bonding scenes between young actresses Fish Liew Ziyu ( Lazy Hazy Crazy ) and Jennifer Yu Heung-ying, respectively as Sei and Ling, who grew close as fellow workers in a seedy massage parlour and, at one point, even agreed to raise the latter’s illegitimate baby together. As Sei belatedly discovers, there was perhaps more than a hint of love in their friendship.