2.5/5 stars
In My First of May, a former star athlete sidelined by an old career-ending injury must emerge from his despair to care for the disabled teenage daughter he has long ignored.
This gentle effort by James Hung Ling-ching (The Seventh Lie), the latest in a long line of Hong Kong films in the past decade to look to home for bittersweet sentiment, is a warm-hearted but clichรฉd family drama that makes little attempt to conceal its calculated moves to wring tears from its viewers.
Fast forward to today and Tang lives alone in an illegal rooftop unit in an industrial building, scalping tickets for sports facilities to earn a meagre living. He is urged by his elderly mother, Suen Yau-mui (Paw), to move back into the familyโs public estate flat and assume responsibility for his now adolescent daughter, Chi (Hsu).