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Electric Shadows

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Electric Shadows

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Reviews Counted: 10 Fresh: 8  Rotten:2 Average Rating: 6.8/10
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Theatrical Release: Dec 16, 2005 Limited
Synopsis:
Mao Dabing, an easygoing film buff, works delivering water bottles in Beijing. One day after he accidentally crashes his bike in an alley, he's suddenly brained with a brick by a disturbed young woman, Ling-ling. Arrested by the police, Ling-ling remains silent, but she gives Dabing the key... [More]
Mao Dabing, an easygoing film buff, works delivering water bottles in Beijing. One day after he accidentally crashes his bike in an alley, he's suddenly brained with a brick by a disturbed young woman, Ling-ling. Arrested by the police, Ling-ling remains silent, but she gives Dabing the key to her apartment, asking him to feed the fish. Her place turns out to be a shrine to the movies, and especially to one star, legendary '30s singer-actress Zhou Xuan. As Dabing reads Ling-ling's private diary, the film flashes back to Ningxia province in the early '70s and the story of Ling-ling's mom, Jiang Xuehua. --© First Run Features [Less]

Genre: Dramas

Director: Jiang Xiao

DVD Info

Release:

Jul 25, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Keep Case

Audio:

  • (unspecified) - Mandarin
  • Subtitles - English - optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Video Introduction - Director

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Photo Stills
  • Biography - Director
  • Director's Notes

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In an astonishingly accomplished first feature, female filmmaker Xiao Jiang puts an entirely different face on China's Cultural Revolution.

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03/01/07 03:38 AM
Maria Garcia
Film Journal International
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Strip away the silly ideology of the old films, and Electric Shadows could be any movie buff's tale. It's the memory movie of our own mind, in English, Mandarin or whatever language the local Bijou screened them in.

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06/23/06 04:40 PM
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
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Chinese filmmaker Xiao Jiang makes an impressive debut with an extended flashback about two cinema-crazed kids coming of age amid the communist revolution of the early 1970s.

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06/22/06 02:30 PM
Steve Schneider
Orlando Weekly
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05/11/06 03:15 AM
Time Out
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Like a Chinese version of The Notebook, every bit as sappy and shameless, only with crazier ingredients and 10 percent less saturated sentimentalism.

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12/22/05 06:57 AM
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star
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Debuting writer-director Xiao Jiang shows she has the makings of a quality mainstream filmmaker.

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12/16/05 01:21 PM
Derek Elley
Variety
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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.

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12/16/05 01:19 PM
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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Dreamy lighting, soft colors and lilting music mix with an agreeable cast.

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12/16/05 01:15 PM
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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A touching, deeply evocative love letter to the history of Chinese cinema.

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12/16/05 01:13 PM
Wade Major
Boxoffice Magazine
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This fanciful Chinese tearjerker wants to be an Asian Cinema Paradiso but doesnt quite live up to its prototype.

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12/15/05 04:58 PM
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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For every privileged moment (mother and daughter dancing in a yard of screen-like sheets hanging in the breeze), there's a death or sociopathic act that says movies can ruin your life.

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12/13/05 01:22 PM
Michael Atkinson
Village Voice
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