Taipei, a city that devours you.

The Left-Handed Girl It's the closest thing to a movie of Sean Baker not directed by Sean Baker. In fact, if we look at the credits, Sean Baker is involved in a bit: the author ofAnoraHe's the producer, co-writer, and editor. And if we dig a little deeper, we discover that director Shih-Ching Tsou has been a collaborator of Baker's for many years: she's produced Starlet, Tangerine, The Florida project and Red rocket before he started directing his first film. He could have been behind the camera (well, behind the phone, because The Left-Handed Girl It was entirely filmed on an iPhone 13) much earlier: the origins of this project date back to 2010, when Shih-Ching Tsou and Baker co-wrote a script that didn't secure funding until 2022.

with the work of another author are not things that can be caged on IMDB, FilmAffinity or Wikipedia. If The Left-Handed Girl What makes it seem like a Sean Baker film is its similar tone. This story about a family—a single mother and two daughters who move from the countryside to an overwhelming city (Taipei)—is, fundamentally, empathetic. The characters aren't judged, even though they shout at each other, even though they're not without flaws, even though they make questionable decisions. It's an effort to understand characters struggling with their environment (glaring, overloaded with stimuli) that is constantly transferred from the screen to the viewer.