1995 · drama · comedy · hongkong
Summer Snow
Directed by Ann Hui1h 41m1995
Tells the story of the relationship between a widower with Alzheimer's disease and his daughter-in-law, May Sun, who is a housewife in her forties trying cope with the upheavals in her family.
Our read: Summer Snow (1995) reads as a warm, measured, grounded drama · comedy · hongkong entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, measured, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
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