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.
Released: Mar 08, 2012
Runtime: 102 minutes
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Stars: Shu Qi, Shawn Yue Man-Lok, Chen Shu, Niu Mengmeng, Xi Meijuan, Lo Hoi-Pang
Crew: Carol Lai Miu-Suet (Writer), Gordon Chan (Producer), Raymond Wong Ying-Wah (Original Music Composer), Choi Sung-Fai (Director of Photography), Eric Kwong Chi-Leung (Editor), Ho Lai (Screenplay)