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Friday, November 18, 2016

SFilm to Maybe Watch: Our Sister Mambo (2015)

(Singapore Film) 

 Our Sister Mambo (2015) 


Four sisters, all with names inspired from their father's favorite actress, are still living at home while trying to find their place in the world. The mother is delightfully obsessed with Korean dramas, as well as intent on finding her daughters good husbands. Mambo surprises everyone when she decides to quit her job as a lawyer to pursue her true passion: cooking. Will Mrs. Wong allow Mambo to pursue her dreams, or will her practical side become an overbearing burden on their family? What happens when the youngest daughter June starts dating the son of Mrs. Wong's office enemy? How will Mambo's dinner invitation to her sister Grace's love interest, the divorcee with a child, go over with the family? Will Rose ever settle down?

*Indian films are the only ones I've watched where the actors slip in and out of English dialogue – this film switches between English, Cantonese, and Chinese, with a handful of Korean phrases just for fun. It's a little bit difficult to keep up with it, since the English phrases do not have subtitles while the lilt in their voices, the vocal pattern, is decidedly Chinese. It was a clean film, but it also lacked tension – nothing bad happens to anyone. Aside from the mother's disapproval, the family had very few altercations, keeping the feel quite calm. Basically, it's a bit on the dull side, but sometimes that can be a nice break. I might watch it again.*

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