The Second Woman

(2012)

★ 4.8 IMDb · 8 votes

Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller

Year: 2012

Runtime: 102 мин

Country: China, Hong Kong

Director: Carol Lai Miu-Suet

Cast: Шу Ци, Шон Юе, Шу Чен, Niu Mengmeng, Си Мэй Цзюань, 盧海鵬, 張錦程, 张乃天, Лэн Чжун И

Plot

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.