Left-Handed Girl

Fewer moviegoing experiences are more exasperating than comedies (or comedy-dramas) that try too hard but invariably fall flat. These insipid, allegedly zany offerings try viewer patience with their listless narratives, lack of substance and even greater absence of laughs. But, unfortunately, that’s precisely what dooms this second feature outing from writer-director-producer Shih-Ching Tsou. The film follows the lives of a single mother, Shu-Fen (Janel Tsai), and her two daughters, I-Ann (Shih-Yuan Ma) and I-Jing (Nina Ye), who relocate (from where it’s never made especially clear) to Tai...