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‘All Shall Be Well’ Review: A Found Family is Lost in a Tender But Tentative, Queer-Themed Grief Drama
"Suk Suk" director Ray Yeung's "All Shall Be Well" gently probes the fallout when a sudden death leaves a lesbian in her 60s without legal protection
The little kids call both older women “Grandma.” Fanny confides some of her worries about her husband’s lack of prospects with her “Aunty Angie.” And when Angie tries to press some cash on struggling Uber driver Victor, he gives it back, smiling ruefully and telling her that Pat got there first. As they wave a convivial goodbye to everyone at the end of the night you can sense (not just from Yeung’s sensitive scriptwriting but from the mutually bolstering chemistry the two actresses share) that Pat and Angie, far from being the outcasts in this little tribe, are the lucky ones. In a way, the portrayal of this gay later-life relationship as the most stable one within an ordinary Hong Kong family is its own kind of delightful subversion, and there would have been something oddly brave about simply sticking with this wonderful twosome, through the swells and lulls of their everyday routines.
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