Twilight's Kiss

Summary

A delicate, tender (although not without audacity) portrait with that special oriental sensibility of a gay love story between two mature men in today's Hong Kong.

Review Pak (Po Tai) works as a taxi driver in Hong Kong; He is 70 years old, married with two children and a granddaughter, and meets Hoy (Ben Yuen), a 65-year-old divorced retiree. Both will build a loving bond.

Almost from the beginning, we note where Pak channels (and restrains) the homosexual side of him. But it is Hoy, more self-assured, who begins to propose a different path that the first accepts. In what areas will these two men build their refuges for intimacy? How will they reconcile this romance with their well-established family lives?

Director Ray Yeung shows us the tenderness that these two mature men are capable of, with beautiful scenes of sexual intimacy between them. The secret romance and its drifts flow and make their way, alternating with the family vicissitudes of both and connecting with past losses.

The film develops a subplot that refers to young gay activists who seek to create an asylum for homosexual older men (since many of them do not have families to take care of them when they can no longer fend for themselves), the meetings with them and the difficult issue of visibility.

With all these elements, Yeung builds a delicate, entertaining and adult story, not without audacity and fortunately very far from the geriatric romances of American cinema, and with the discreet and tender hallmark of Eastern cinema when it comes to portraying the bonds. Pak and Hoy (both protagonists are remarkable) are two mature men, desiring (it is remarkable how they "rejuvenate" when they are together) and responsible, willing to try a love bond.

Undoubtedly, a sensitive and great love story.