情谜 (2012)

Title: The Second Woman

Original Title: 情谜

Release Date: 2012-03-08

Status: Released

Rating: 4.8/10 (from 8 votes)

Language: ZH

Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller

Production Companies: Sun Entertainment Culture, China Movie Channel, Stars Shine Blue Sea Productions

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.