'Left-Handed Girl' Review: Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker Make a Bittersweet Family Dramedy

In 2004, the world got its first sign of the grounded emotionality that collaborators Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker could create in their co-directed neorealist feature "Take Out." A portrait of a young man struggling to make ends meet in New York City by biking around delivering food, it was made for next to no money yet still left a mark because of how authentically lived-in it is. Now, more than 20 years later, "Left-Handed Girl," which is directed by Tsou from a script she co-wrote with Baker, trades NYC for Taipei and a bike for a scooter while maintaining the same sense of . . .