2016 · drama · romance
Soul Mate
Directed by Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung1h 50m2016
The film spans two decades, as the story unfolds in a series of flashbacks that begin when Qiyue and Ansheng were just thirteen. The two became inseparable, until they met a boy who ended up tearing their lives apart.
Our read: Soul Mate (2016) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
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