Shun Li and the Poet
- measured
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
Neutral, measured, gentle drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon.
Our read · Shun Li and the Poet (2011) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Shun Li and the Poet
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