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Title: Charming and surprising
Review: This is one of my favorite Chinese films. It centers around a retired master chef and his 3 very different daughters. Each of them is struggling in some way to balance concerns like career, family, romance, faith, self-actualization, or simply being a good person; each of them is finding some of these easy and some of them hard to impossible. The characters are well-presented, and we get drawn into their struggles with a wonderful blend of comedy and seriousness, hoping that they all reach some degree of enlightenment and happiness. Which they mostly do, but in unexpected ways that make the latter part of the film surprising and delightful.
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