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‘Suk Suk’: Film Review

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Two older working-class men, both secretly gay, meet by chance and a hidden relationship develops in “Suk Suk,” the poignant third feature from writer-director Ray Yeung.

Inspired by a sociology professor’s oral history of older gay men in Hong Kong, the drama incorporates documentary-like elements about end-of-life issues for gay elders.

Mainly, however, it asks if it is possible for men who have been raised with strict traditional values and led hetero-normative lives with wives and children to put that aside and find happiness and fulfillment with a man.

Strong performances by veterans Tai Bo and Ben Yuen make the protagonists’ struggle concrete and affecting. Seventy-year-old Pak (Bo) still drives his cab, less for financial gain than

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