Forgive & Forget

Forgive & Forget

Alice Tzeng Kai-xuan, Andy On Chi-kit, Miki Yeung Oi-gan

Director: Patrick Kong

What starts out as a sensitive drama about the process of grief makes an unexpected and implausible gearshift in its third act to become one of the guiltiest pleasures of the year.

Director-writer Patrick Kong (Yip Lim-sum) is at the forefront of a new generation of mainstream Hong Kong directors, chiefly via a trilogy of cynical youth romances starring muse Stephy Tang Lai-yan.

Forgive & Forget is his first Stephy-less feature and his first to underperform at the box office, though the fault lies less with the cast than script contrivances that defy credibility.