Aloes (2020)

The Radar read

A quieter title still finding its audience, though the rating rests on a thin sample, so treat it as provisional.

Synopsis

Lao Zhong, owner of a traditional medicine shop in the south of China, has two adults sons and a daughter. Even as the business prospers, family relationships worsen. A family can be compared to a tree, and damaged trees secrete resin to heal themselves. Perhaps a cure for the family’s intolerable situation can be found.

Synopsis and metadata sourced from The Movie Database (TMDB).

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