Glasgow Film Festival Exit

The heart is a resilient little muscle in Exit, a plaintive portrait of a middle-aged woman coping with the loneliness of growing older and feeling unappreciated. Ling (Shaing-chyi Chen) lives in a rundown apartment in the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung. Her daughter treats the place like a hotel and her hospital-bound mother expects daily visits; Ling can already feel herself becoming invisible in a world of shrinking possibilities. She retains a generous heart and starts to care for an injured man in her mother’s hospital ward. A gentle, understated charmer of a film with a magnetic, award-winning central performance.