Feng Xia (Joan Chen), a Chinese immigrant and mother living in Montréal, lives a life shaped by duty: to her family, her culture, and a loveless marriage. But when she meets Camille (Charlotte Aubin), a spirited young Québécoise, long-buried desires are awakened.

In the balmy Montréal summer, Feng Xia takes the radical step of choosing herself, embarking on a journey of forbidden love and overdue self-discovery.

In one of the boldest turns in her career, screen icon Joan Chen (The Last Emperor, Twin Peaks, Saving Face) delivers a haunting performance as a woman whose awakening leads to a profound reckoning with identity, exile, and the cost of liberation. A landmark in queer Asian diaspora cinema, Montréal, Ma Belle explores the paradoxes at the heart of immigrant life.

 

 

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