Overview
- Netflix released the family comedy-drama on November 28, and it is available to stream now.
- The story follows a five-year-old girl, her sister, and their mother as they move from rural Taiwan to Taipei to run a noodle stall in a night market.
- Shih-Ching Tsou wrote and directed the film with Sean Baker as co-writer, extending a collaboration that began with Take Out in 2004.
- Critics lauded the film, with Collider calling it one of the year's best solo directing debuts and The Spectator and The Times praising its tone and performances.
- Tsou cites her Taiwanese upbringing as inspiration and she avoided formal rehearsals, asking actors to draw on personal family experiences to sustain natural tension.