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Dear Ex on Netflix – award-winning Mandarin-language film explores family values in Taiwan

An odd-couple Netflix double bill this week, featuring a film that feels like it could have been a 10-part series and a 10-part series that looks like a film (albeit an extended one). Said film is Dear Ex, a Taiwanese tragicomedy starring, well, a couple of odd couples: gay male lovers on one hand, the ex-wife and son of one of the men on the other. The older man of the two is a professor apparently settled in his marriage, who suddenly disappears with a local-theatre actor and stage manager...

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