Over the last few decades, American television and film have opened up, so much so that my colleague Esther Breger recently argued that TV is more diverse than it’s ever been. But the one group that’s ...

This fall, Lilting, a haunting movie about grief and loss, opened in theaters across the country (and opens in D.C. this week). Starring Ben Whishaw (“The Hour,” Skyfall) and Cheng Pei-Pei (a 1960s ...

Writer-director Hong Khaou has been working to boost a neglected niche with several dramatic shorts about gay relationships. Now he has moved onto his first feature, "Lilting." It is, as the title ...

Guilt hangs over “Lilting,” a suffocating haze so thick that it permeates every unspoken, non-understood word between characters trying to traverse a frustrating gulf of language and grief. In this ...

“Lilting,” starring Cheng Pei-pei and Ben Whishaw, is a lyrical little chamber piece on language, playing with what words mean, what the body says, what is understood and what is not. Writer-director ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

There’s a scene in “Lilting,” writer/director Hong Khaou’s feature film debut, where Junn (Cheng Pei-Pei), an elderly Chinese-Cambodian woman, dances with Alan (Peter Bowles), her English sort-of ...

An air of delicacy hovers over Lilting, but don't be fooled. Ungovernable gusts of longing, grief and anger leak from this muted British chamber piece about two hitherto unconnected Londoners ...

Cultures and generations clash and mesh in the aftermath of a young man’s death in “Lilting,” a quietly unique meditation on love and loss from Cambodian director Hong Khaou. An elderly Chinese woman ...

Hong Khaou makes a fine debut with this quietly resonant cross-cultural chamber piece. Barriers of age and culture, sexuality and shame are overcome with delicacy and grace in “Lilting,” a quietly ...