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Piccadilly

1929 · 1h 49m · Passed Crime, Drama
Directed by E.A. Dupont

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A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.

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80%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Dupont has an original way of employing camera movement to suggest erotic chemistry between characters, and Wong, who even provoked a rave notice from Walter Benjamin, is as memorable and confident as Louise Brooks was in the films of G.W. Pabst.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh

Music is the usual medley of pop dance stuff, with the cabaret set about the best thing in the production. Camerawork on close-ups is excellent.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

A swinging London club; the breakup of a famous performing couple; a well-known dancer being replaced by one younger and more exotic; a murder. All juicy fodder for plot, and it's a good thing.

Marta Barber, Miami Herald
Fresh

[Wong's] role of Shosho, the red-hot dancing star of London's Piccadilly nightclub, shows her at her dramatic and erotic peak.

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Fresh

Wong is the kind of gorgeous that burns right through a camera lens, and the kind of mesmerizing that seems without effort or end.

Janice Page, Boston Globe

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