Electric Shadows
2004 Chinese film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Electric Shadows is a 2004 Chinese film directed by Xiao Jiang. The English title of the film is the literal translation for the Chinese term for movies or "dian ying" (電影).
Electric Shadows | |
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Traditional Chinese | 夢影童年 |
Simplified Chinese | 梦影童年 |
Hanyu Pinyin | Mèng Yǐng Tóngnián |
Directed by | Xiao Jiang |
Written by | Xiao Jiang Cheng Qingsong |
Produced by | Derek Yee Huang Jianxin |
Starring | Xia Yu Li Haibin Zhang Yijing Qi Zhongyang Wang Zhengjia |
Cinematography | Chen Hong Yang Lien |
Edited by | Lei Qin |
Music by | Zhao Linzhao |
Distributed by | Fortissimo Films |
Release dates |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | China |
Language | Mandarin |
Electric Shadows is the debut film of director Xiao Jiang,[1] one of the few active female directors in China. Xiao and Cheng Qingsong wrote the screenplay. The film was produced by mainland China's Beijing Dadi Century and Hong Kong's Happy Pictures Culture Communication Company.
The film begins when a young woman mysteriously attacks a stranger and then asks him to care for her fish while she is being arrested. When he enters her apartment he discovers an apparent shrine to the 1930s actress Zhou Xuan and that they share a love of the cinema and more. The film's reverent attitude towards the power of film and particularly classic film has brought it comparison to, or at least reference to Italy's Cinema Paradiso.[1][2][3]