The first ever feature film produced by the Hong Kong Baptist University, “Pretty Heart” is a timely discursive take on the increasingly more competitive arena of education. Unlike Nattawut Poonpiriya’s “Bad Genius,” however, which is a razor-sharp, heart-thumping romp on the nuts and bolts of students’ modus operandi and motivations behind wholesale cheating, “Pretty Heart” dissects the pressure to excel by humanizing all the people involved in preparing the city’s secondary school students for a test that will significantly impact their future.
Pretty Heart is screening at Asian Pop Up Cinema
The film interweaves three storylines, that of between English literature teacher Chloe Lee and the estranged relationship she has with her father, Lee Lung Kei, a principal of a cram center, her blossoming romance with her father’s top tutor K.K. Ho, and the relationship they all have with the kids they teach, particularly that with Shu Ting,...
Pretty Heart is screening at Asian Pop Up Cinema
The film interweaves three storylines, that of between English literature teacher Chloe Lee and the estranged relationship she has with her father, Lee Lung Kei, a principal of a cram center, her blossoming romance with her father’s top tutor K.K. Ho, and the relationship they all have with the kids they teach, particularly that with Shu Ting,...
- 10/27/2022
- by Purple Romero
- AsianMoviePulse
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