2020 · drama · music · romance
Lovers Rock (Small Axe)
Directed by Pan Lei1h 35m2020
In a tiny Chinese fishing village, two rival fishermen compete for a young woman's love. She does love one of them, but as she is obligated to the other, she cannot marry him. Tragedy is averted when the one she is obliged to falls in love with another. Happiness briefly ensues as the men, with their respective mates, resume their friendship. Unfortunately, they set out to sea and disappear.
Our read: Lovers Rock (Small Axe) (2020) reads as a warm, measured, grounded drama · music · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, measured, measured drama / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- measured
- tender
- signature
- intimate
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