NYAFF XXIII Review: In Nelicia Low’s PIERCE, Dueling Sides Come To A Head With Intense Results
4.5 min. read Getting the Best Director win over at Karlovy Vary this month, burgeoning director Nelicia Low’s latest drama, Pierce, now makes its case before audiences at the 23rd New York Asian Film Festival for its North American Premiere. Zijie (Liu Hsiu-Fu) is a young fencing prospect who lives with his mother (Ding Ning). They share a pretty dark and tragic past, one outlined by the death of his father, and even more prominently, the jailing of his older brother, Zihan (Tsao Yu-Ning), who himself was once a three time fencing champion on their club’s team. As the film tells it, Zihan was jailed seven years earlier for presumably killing his opponent during a match, and its within the first act of the film when Zijie suprisingly learns that Zihan is finally getting out of jail. This isn’t something the mother wanted Zijie to find out either. Until now, […]
