Time Still Turns the Pages (2023)
- Original title
- 年少日記
- Directed by
- Nick Cheuk
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Rated
- 15
- Rating
- 7.8 of 10 from 66 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A secondary school teacher is haunted by the academic pressure his father put on him as a child. While trying to help a student who is thinking about suicide, he is forced to face his own painful past.
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What happens
Time Still Turns the Pages (Chinese: 年少日記) is a 2023 Hong Kong drama film directed and co-written by Nick Cheuk and produced by Derek Yee, marking Cheuk's directorial debut as part of the First Feature Film Initiative. Starring Siuyea Lo and Ronald Cheng, the film follows a secondary school teacher (Lo) who confronts a childhood trauma caused by academic pressure from his father (Cheng) while helping a suicidal student. Cheuk wrote the screenplay in response to student suicides in Hong Kong in 2015, drawing heavily on the real-life experience of a friend who took his own life and who was also a mutual friend of Siuyea Lo. The project was greenlit in 2019 as part of the First Feature Film Initiative, with rewrites occurring in 2020 and principal photography taking place in 2021, primarily at Chiu Yang Por Yen Primary School. The film had its world premiere at the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival on 11 June 2023, followed by a theatrical release in Hong Kong on 16 November. It received five and twelve nominations in the 60th Golden Horse Awards and 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards, respectively, with Nick Cheuk winning Best New Director at both ceremonies. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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