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- 2001
- PG
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 56 m
- 2001
- PG
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 56 m
Summary Set in 1902, this comedy centers around the arrival of a Westerner who introduces silent films to Imperial Peking.
Directed By: Ann Hu
- 2001
- PG
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 56 m
- 2001
- PG
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 56 m
Shadow Magic
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Summary Set in 1902, this comedy centers around the arrival of a Westerner who introduces silent films to Imperial Peking.
Directed By: Ann Hu
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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73% Positive
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16 Reviews
27% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
66
73% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
27% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Sumptuous, warm, continually amazing, it's a completely enjoyable couple of hours at the flickers.
It's a film about culture clash, the generation gap and the loss of tradition that inevitably accompanies the arrival of anything new.
Shadow Magic isn't interested in psychology or character study. It's a series of tableaux and on that level succeeds admirably.
Evokes the dawn of cinema in China with much charm, humor and subtlety.
The story doesn't exactly startle with surprises and has a tendency to hammer and rehammer its points.
The movie is more concerned with the story line (premiere-fire-threat-rescue) than with painting the time and place.
Unfortunately, Hu and her army of co-writers saddle the story with a tired romantic subplot and fail to develop meaningful characters.
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Production Company
Beijing Film Studio,
C & A Productions,
Central Motion Picture Corporation,
Central Motion Pictures,
China Film Group Corporation (CFGC),
Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen,
Post Production Playground,
Road Movies Vierte Produktionen,
Schulberg Productions
Release Date Apr 6, 2001
Duration 1 h 56 m
Rating PG
Awards
Golden Horse Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 8 Nominations
Hundred Flowers Awards
• 3 Nominations
Huabiao Film Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
