Shu Qi Getty Shu Qi has spent her career embodying other people's stories - enigmatic drifters for Hou Hsiao-hsien, comic foils in international action franchises, or, more recently, the tragic heroine of Bi Gan's Cannes award winner Resurrection. With Girl, Taiwan's most acclaimed screen star, now 49, turns the camera on herself, mining her childhood in 1980s Taipei for a bracingly personal directorial debut. The result is not nostalgia but something darker: a stark coming-of-age tale about inherited sorrow, cycles of violence, and the fleeting possibility of friendship and escape.