Montages of a Modern Motherhood
New York Asian Film Festival 2025
July 11 - 24, 2025
In this sensitive, piercingly honest follow-up to Still Human, Oliver Chan Siu-kuen taps into her own experience as a first-time mother, leaving no indignity unexamined.
In her sensitive, piercingly honest follow-up to Still Human (NYAFF 2019), Oliver Chan Siu-kuen taps into her own experience as a first-time mother, and minces no words. For Suk-jing (Hedwig Tam), who lives with her passive husband Wai (Lo Chun Yip) and her in-laws in the New Territories, neonatal care is a much more fraught experience than she anticipated. There’s the constant breast pumping, the hair loss, the lack of sleep, the coffee/tea abstinence, and the unsolicited advice from others—not to mention the gnawing question, “what do we get in return?” Intimate, affecting, and powerfully observed, Montages of a Modern Motherhood captures the isolation, frustration, and quiet strength of women expected to endure in silence.
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