The Second Woman (2012)

One suspects writer-director Carol Lai may have harboured some Black Swan ambitions with a tale that also centers around a stage practitioner who embarks on an unwitting destructive journey when playing a role to die for. The Second Woman, whose Chinese title Romance Riddle may hold better clues as to how this film developed, being more of a guessing game that threw constant clues rather than a overly romantic film about twins falling in love with a man who decided it's perfectly OK to string both women along, until he discovers that this spells double trouble.

Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller

Stars: Shu Qi, Shawn Yue Man-Lok, Chen Shu, Niu Mengmeng, Xi Meijuan

Release Date: 2012-03-08

Country: China, Hong Kong

Ratings: 4.8 / 10 (8 votes)

Runtime: 102 mins