Electric Shadows

Name: Electric Shadows
Genre: Drama
Released: December 16, 2005
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 70

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First Run Features | Release Date: December 16, 2005

Summary: 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.

Director: Jiang Xiao

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 93 min

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TV Guide Magazine 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

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

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

Stephen Holden

Plays as an enthralling but implausible Asian soap opera. Read full review

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

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

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

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