Review | The Last Dance movie review: Dayo Wong, Michael Hui impress in exquisite funeral drama
Comic actors excel in purely dramatic roles, but Michelle Wai steals the show in an engrossing film that champions female empowerment
4/5 stars
Upon taking over the Hung Hom shop of a retiring funeral agent as a last resort to stay afloat, Dominic is not just unnerved by the morbid enterprise – which often involves handling the departed’s remains – but also struggles to win over his new business partner Master Man (Hui in great form), a stern Taoist priest in his eighties.
Dominic’s eagerness to meet all his clients’ wishes is initially greeted with contempt by Man – although the former’s resolve to satisfy a most unconventional request from a grieving mother (Rosa Maria Velasco) appears to have opened the old man’s eyes to the true value of their work: to comfort the living.