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Electric Shadows
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 7 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Foreign
Written by:
Cheng Qingsong
Ziao Jiang
Directed by: Xiao Jiang
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 16, 2005
DVD: July 25, 2006
Running Time: 93 minutes, Color
Origin: China
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Jiang Yihong, Li Haibin, Guan Xiaotong, Zhang Yijing, Qi Zhongyang, Wang Zhengjia, Zhang Haoqi, and Xia Yuqing
Xiao Jiang, a Chinese woman making her first feature, is the director of this film about the trials and tribulations of a pair of film lovers during the Cultural Revolution.
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What The Critics Said
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TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Xiao's bittersweet film is superficially a swoony love letter to the cinema. But her valentine has a hidden sting, rooted in some hard truths about movie mania.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Things take several turns for the worse as the story plays out, and the film loses much of its charm. But it's a fascinating artifact, and never more so than when it features clips from Chinese and, of all things, Albanian propaganda films.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
The Chinese pleaser Electric Shadows belongs to a genre they don't teach in film school: Triple S, as in sweet, sappy and sentimental.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Plays as an enthralling but implausible Asian soap opera.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Andrew Sun
With her debut, Xiao Jiang has created the Chinese equivalent of "Cinema Paradiso." The Beijing Film Academy graduate's confident first feature is a lovely, elegant paean to the joy and liberty that films offer as a symbol.
Read Full Review >Variety Derek Elley
A fairly conventional heartwarmer, lifted by likable performances, good-looking production values and (for movie buffs) a story centered on an outdoor cinema in rural China.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Electric Shadows is committed to movies-as-escape swoonery, but the script's late disasters are also predicated on cinema and filmgoing, suggesting an ambivalence the rest of the film seems oblivious to.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
