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Love Life Light

2023 · 125 min

A hushed, rain-soaked puzzle that unfolds slowly, mixing neighbourhood warmth with a creeping sense of secrets and quiet unease.

Directed by: Cai Jing
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Fantasy
Starring: Zhang Ruonan, Bai Yufan, Liu Yijun

Overview: At the end of an alley, a “lighting shop” is always lit up, and the mysterious boss carefully wipes every light bulb, while customers of all kinds come and go. A nurse and her boyfriend move into a new apartment near the shop. She gradually discovers that everyone here has a secret that they can’t tell. On a stormy night, she walks into the lighting shop at the end of the alley, and the answers are slowly revealed…

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Directed by: Cai Jing
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Fantasy
Starring: Zhang Ruonan, Bai Yufan, Liu Yijun

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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: mystery
deception
isolation
memory
love
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	4
Humour	2
Realism	5
Romance	4
Tension	6
Darkness	6
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama, mystery, fantasy
Directed by: Cai Jing
Starring: Zhang Ruonan, Bai Yufan, Liu Yijun, Liu Yan, Zhang Qi, Sun Meilin, Sun Qian, Ryan Zheng Kai
Runtime: 125 min
Country: China
Languages: Mandarin

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