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
Electric Shadows
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:8
Rotten:2
Average Rating:6.8/10
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... [More]
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Reviews for Electric Shadows
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A touching, deeply evocative love letter to the history of Chinese cinema.
12/16/05
In an astonishingly accomplished first feature, female filmmaker Xiao Jiang puts an entirely different face on China's Cultural Revolution.
03/01/07
Dreamy lighting, soft colors and lilting music mix with an agreeable cast.
12/16/05
This fanciful Chinese tearjerker wants to be an Asian Cinema Paradiso but doesnt quite live up to its prototype.
12/15/05
Top CriticStrip 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.
06/23/06
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.
06/22/06
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05/11/06
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.
12/16/05
Debuting writer-director Xiao Jiang shows she has the makings of a quality mainstream filmmaker.
12/16/05
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.
12/13/05
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