Love Can’t Be Said 一直一直都很喜欢你 China, 2022, colour, 2.35:1, 92 mins. Director: Wu Jiakai 吴家凯. Associate director: Zhang Zhihong 张智鸿. Rating: 4/10. Student romance-that-never-declares-itself is a half-hour short masquerading as a full-length feature. STORY A city in southern China, 2016. Tong Zhiliao (Zhou Yiran), a nerdy, bespectacled veterinary student in her fourth year, has been … Continue reading Review: Love Can’t Be Said (2022) →
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