Montages of a Modern Motherhood (2025)

1h 51m
Running Time

April 24, 2025
Release Date

Montages of a Modern Motherhood (2025)

1h 51m
Running Time

April 24, 2025
Release Date

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Jing’s day begins with a graceful tracking shot that follows her from the early morning as she pumps breast milk, leaves her baby with her mother-in-law, and heads to the bakery where she works. Her baby daughter Qing is difficult and cries constantly and Jing frequently clashes with her live-in in-laws over childcare and housework, while her husband, who works as a delivery driver, views parenting as something he occasionally helps with. All she did was have a child, yet Jing’s life is turned upside down, leaving her in a situation where all her efforts to build her career have been negated. Director Oliver Siu Kuen Chan meticulously dissects Jing’s struggles, revealing the emotional turbulence she endures. The film’s realistic and precise narrative depicts the suffocating oppression women suffer within both family and society, the pressures of ‘being a mother’ and ‘motherhood,’ and resolutely move forward, forcing Jing to make a final decision.

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Release Date
April 24, 2025

Original Name
虎毒不

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Running Time
1h 51m

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Montages of a Modern Motherhood (Chinese: 虎毒不) is a 2024 Hong Kong drama film directed and written by Oliver Chan. Marking Chan's second feature, the film stars Hedwig Tam as Jing, a postpartum mother, alongside Siuyea Lo, Janis Pang, Patra Au, and Alice Fung. It focuses on the first six months after Jing gives birth, exploring the hardships and emotions she experiences while caring for her daughter.

In 2019, Oliver Chan began developing the screenplay after releasing her debut feature Still Human (2018), and she started pitching the film in project markets under the working title Her Lullaby that same year. The writing process spanned approximately three years during the COVID-19 pandemic, while pre-production took less than a year, with principal photography commencing in November 2023 primarily in Yuen Long.

The film had its world premiere in competition for the New Currents Award at the 29th Busan International Film Festival on 7 October 2024, followed by a theatrical release in Hong Kong on 24 April 2025. It received two nominations in the 43rd Hong Kong Film Awards, and Hedwig Tam won a Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award for her performance.

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