Montages of a Modern Motherhood (虎毒不, Oliver Chan Siu-kuen, 2024)

Montages of a Modern Motherhood (虎毒不, Oliver Chan Siu-kuen, 2024)

A title card at the end of Oliver Chan’s Montages of a Modern Motherhood (虎毒不) dedicates the film to all women who chose not to become mothers, and it’s true enough that the picture it paints of contemporary child rearing is relentlessly bleak. Governments in much of the developed world are fiercely trying to encourage more couples to have children, but few are really addressing the reasons why they aren’t while the ways people live their lives …