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The Last Dance

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7.7/10 • 22

2024-11-092h 6m

Drama

A debt-ridden wedding planner inadvertently becomes a successful funeral planner. However, he must convince a traditional Taoist priest of his legitimacy to continue operating in the field.

Directors
Anselm Chan
Writters
Anselm Chan, Cheng Wai-Kei

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  1. Michael Hui Koon-Man

    Michael Hui Koon-Man

    Kwok Man

  2. Dayo Wong

    Dayo Wong

    Dominic Ngai To-sang

  3. Michelle Wai Si-Nga

    Michelle Wai Si-Nga

    Kwok Man-yuet

  4. Tommy Chu Pak-Hong

    Tommy Chu Pak-Hong

    Kwok Chi-Bun

  5. Catherine Chau

    Catherine Chau

    Jane

  6. Paul Chun Pui

    Paul Chun Pui

    Uncle Ming

  7. Elaine Jin Yan-Ling

    Elaine Jin Yan-Ling

    Tsang Suk-lin

  8. Rosa Maria Velasco

    Rosa Maria Velasco

    Ms. Yen

  9. Rachel Leung

    Rachel Leung

    So So

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CinemaSerf

Nov 30, 2024

7/10

"Dominic" (Dayo Wong) is struggling to make ends meet, post COVID, with his business in tatters and his repayment bills at almost $13,000 per month. He's not afraid of hard work, though, so when his "Uncle Ming" (Paul Chun) offers him his share in a funeral parlour he jumps at the chance. His partner - rather sarcastically referred to as "Hello Man" (Michael Hui) comes across as a rather curmudgeonly fellow - a traditionalist Taoist priest who lives with his ambulance-driving daughter "Yuet" (Michelle Wai) and his favourite son "Ben" (Pak Hon Chu) who is attempting to follow in his father's footsteps. Thing is, in his excitement to get the job done and to make enough money to clear his debts, he makes quite a few schoolboy errors at the start that are way more lively to offend the ancestors than send them peaceably on their way to the next life, and that just irks the older man who feels his new pal is disrespectful. As the story unfolds, we follow a young man who learns a little more about a business that is really anything but. At times this is quite a funny story, with a special appearance by a full-sized, papier-mâché, yellow Maserati rather summing up the ineptness of "Dominic" as he strives for success, but that humour rather quickly evaporates leaving us with a familial drama the can be quite poignant at times as it looks at the restricting roles for women and the hereditary responsibility of sons. Given the professions of the characters, grief is never far away and we focus quiet tenderly at times at just how people come to terms with that - or not, whilst we also try to reconcile just how families themselves change from generation to generation, with some tough decisions having to be made that centre around "Ben" and his need to look forward and not back. The acting is engaging and the dialogue well written, allowing the action to do plenty of the work without subjecting us to a constant surfeit of chatter, and it handles the topic of death and the provisions we make to deal with it and it's aftermath sensitively.

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