The Second Woman
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One suspects writer-director Carol Lai may have harboured some Black Swan ambitions with a tale that also centers around a stage practitioner who embarks on an unwitting destructive journey when playing a role to die for. The Second Woman, whose Chinese title Romance Riddle may hold better clues as to how this film developed, being more of a guessing game that threw constant clues rather than a overly romantic film about twins falling in love with a man who decided it's perfectly OK to string both women along, until he discovers that this spells double trouble.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2012-03-08
Runtime: 102 mins
Director: Carol Lai Miu-Suet
Writer: Carol Lai Miu-Suet
Spoken language: 广州话 / 廣州話, 普通话
Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Original title: The Second Woman
Production Companies: Sun Entertainment Culture, China Movie Channel, Stars Shine Blue Sea Productions
Production Countries: China, Hong Kong
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