2007 · fantasy · drama · thriller
Secret
Directed by Jay Chou1h 41m2007
Ye Xiang Lun, a talented piano player is a new student at the prestigious Tamkang School. On his first day, he meets Lu Xiao Yu, a pretty girl playing a mysterious piece of music.
Our read: Secret (2007) reads as a warm, steady, inventive fantasy · drama · thriller entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle fantasy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- inventive
- intimate
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“You want tender piano romance with a time-travel ache underneath.”
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