Soul Mate helmer Derek Tsang’s rousing coming-of-age drama, Better Days, may have hit a few stumbles during its film festival circulation. Rest assured, that hasn’t hindered plans for its stateside rollout now slated for June 28, coinciding with its China release that weekend.
The official trailer is now out and about courtesy of Well Go USA who snagged the film during Cannes on May 15, with TFboys’ own Jackson Yee and actress Zhou Dongyu lending a riveting sample of their performances this week. Check out the trailer above and a poster gallery below.
When it is time for the Chinese gaokao, a two-day national college entrance exam, the entire country comes to a standstill. For nearly ten million high school students, this exam not only determines where and if they get to study but the fates of their entire families as well. Like so many others, Nian has been single-mindedly preparing for the exam, cutting everything else out of her life. When she becomes the target of relentless bullying, fate brings her together with small-time criminal Bei and the two form a strong friendship. Before they can completely retreat into a world of their own, the two are dragged in the middle of a murder case of a teenage girl where they are the prime suspects. In this dramatic thriller, Derek Kwok-Cheung Tsang paints a bleak picture of an oppressive society, in the guise of a gripping fairy-tale love story, exposing the dark world of bullying and societal pressures of achievement facing today’s youth.
