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By Tomris Laffly (460) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 24 Sep 2014

Lilting is as personal a film as can be, exploring love, loss, and the sometimes unspoken language of the delicacies of the human condition…

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By Ella Taylor (978) for NPR (1,713) on 24 Sep 2014

Ungovernable gusts of longing, grief and anger leak from this muted British chamber piece about two hitherto unconnected Londoners struggling…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 24 Sep 2014

It's an impressive effort from Khaou, who secures profound emotions without resorting to melodrama, taking the audience on a strange journey…

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By Sara Stewart (700) for New York Post (6,650) on 23 Sep 2014

Khaou’s film features masterful performances from Whishaw and Cheng, whose dialogue is somehow intensified, rather than diluted, through…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 23 Sep 2014

Within the limitation of their roles, all the actors do solid work…

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By Abby Garnett (48) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Sep 2014

Khaou creates a compelling tension between Whishaw's stricken, almost febrile performance and Cheng's stubbornly dignified one…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Sep 2014

Lilting doesn't have any momentum or any sense of ambiguity, once the setup has been established…

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By Jon Lyus (167) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 28 Aug 2014

The film comes from a really genuine place, but sadly just doesn't quite reach far enough in terms of its exploration of a notoriously difficult…

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By Mary Sollosi (29) for Indiewire (3,631) on 23 Aug 2014

Whishaw's sensitive performance gives Lilting its emotional intensity…

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By Daniel Green (105) for CineVue (2,163) on 23 Aug 2014

Lilting looks set to linger on in the memory of those who seek it out for weeks, months and perhaps even years to come…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 23 Aug 2014

Delicate and unhurried almost to a fault, though also hauntingly sexy and even humorous at times…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 23 Aug 2014

While the characters’ background details (including their occupations) are kept to a minimum, the emotions the story touches are vivid and…

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By Ashley Clark (57) for Sight and Sound (827) on 14 Aug 2014

Thanks to the delicate, multilingual set-up, almost every exchange carries an unpredictable dramatic charge…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for Irish Times (1,391) on 07 Aug 2014

The picture has worthwhile things to say about the barriers too often erected between first-generation immigrants and their more assimilated children…

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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 07 Aug 2014

The writer/director Hong Khaou's chamber piece boasts some wonderful performances from veteran Chinese actress Pei Pei Cheng, Ben Whishaw and…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 07 Aug 2014

A heartbreakingly lovely film about the seemingly insurmountable distances between us when sharing grief is too painful…

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By Sky Staff (12) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 06 Aug 2014

Khaou's unassuming debut feature is content to move at its own pace, lending Peng and Wishaw the time to nuance their wildly opposing characters…

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By Patrick Peters (101) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 06 Aug 2014

A mature and moving debut feature from Cambodian director Hong Khaou with strong turns from Whishaw and Pei-Pei…

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By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 06 Aug 2014

This is a world where touching and looking can express more than a monologue…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 06 Aug 2014

This debut feature from the Cambodian-born, London-based film-maker Hong Khaou is heartfelt, intelligent film-making on a shoestring budget…

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