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Electric Shadows

2004 · 1h 33m · N/A Drama
Directed by Jiang Xiao

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Overview

For no apparent reason, a mute young woman assaults a youth who delivers water on his bicycle, injuring him and ruining his bike. Surprisingly, she asks him to feed her fish while she is in custody. Her tiny apartment, he discovers, is a shrine to his favorite escape, the movies.

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All reviews
73%
Tomatometer
Fresh

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.

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh

Debuting writer-director Xiao Jiang shows she has the makings of a quality mainstream filmmaker.

Derek Elley, Variety
Fresh

Dreamy lighting, soft colors and lilting music mix with an agreeable cast.

V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Rotten

This fanciful Chinese tearjerker wants to be an Asian Cinema Paradiso but doesnt quite live up to its prototype.

Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten

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.

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice

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