Electric Shadows
2004 · Movie · 93 min · ★ 6.5 · 73% critics
After a sudden assault on a young delivery worker, a silent woman makes an unexpected request: feed the fish in her small apartment. Inside, he finds a private world built around old movies, opening a tender story about memory, hardship, and the comfort of cinema.
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Details
- Original title
- 电影往事
- Years
- 2004
- Release date
- 2005-04-07
- Language
- Chinese
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Critic score
- 73/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 (21 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy gentle, nostalgic dramas about childhood, family, and the pull of movies; Not for you if you dislike slow pacing or bittersweet stories.
Pros: heartfelt movie love; engaging child performances; warm emotional moments | Cons: slow middle stretch; heavy coincidences; sometimes sentimental
Themes
- china
- woman director
Cast & crew
Xia Yu
as 毛大兵
Jiang Hongbo
as Jiang Xue Hua
Zhongyang Qi
as 玲玲(青年)
Guan Xiaotong
as 玲玲(童年)
- WZ
Wang Zhengjia
as 毛小兵
Jiang Shan
as 女警
- ZY
Zhang Yijing
as 玲玲(少年)
Li Haibin
as 潘大任
Niu Zhen-Hua
as 医生
- HZ
Haogi Zhang
as Bing Bing
Directed by Jiang Xiao