Better Days

[Available March 26 on various VOD platforms.] Awesome acting and cinematography dominate Derek Tsang's gripping, gut-wrenching, Oscar-nominated, powerful, raw, dark, heartbreaking, unpredictable, 135-minute, 2019 romantic crime thriller adapted from Jiu Yuexi's novel In His Youth, In Her Beauty in which a smart, bullied, resilient, Chinese high school student (Zhou Dongyu), whose irresponsible and neglectful mother (Wu Yue) sells illegal facial products, is dedicated to studying for the grueling, two-day college entrance exams that will influence her future and ends up connecting with a lonely, teenage street thug (Jackson Yee) who helps protect her when mean-spirited classmates begin to bully her relentlessly after she speaks with detectives (Yin Fang, Huang Jue, and Xie Xintong) about the suicide of another bullied student (Zhang Yifan) and eventually when another classmate (Zhou Yu) ends up dead, she and the petty criminal become prime suspects.
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