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December 30, 2025
No Time for Goodbye review
Journalist Don Ng’s debut feature raises interesting questions about the asylum experience – but his film is too sentimental and superficial to truly answer them
TL;DR
- The film raises questions about the asylum experience but is too sentimental and superficial to answer them.
- Bosco, an asylum seeker from Hong Kong, experiences dislocation in London while his application is processed.
- He forms a connection with Yasmin, another asylum seeker whose boyfriend is imprisoned for aiding protesters.
- The script introduces issues like illegal employment, threats of deportation to Rwanda, and far-right anti-immigration groups without deep exploration.
- The film's creator, Don Ng, is a journalist making his feature directorial debut.
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