2019 · drama · romance
Better Days
Directed by Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung2h 15m2019
A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.
Our read: Better Days (2019) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- intense
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