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Shadow Magic

2001, Movie, PG, 118 mins

Shadow Magic: Review

The backdrop of this handsome film from the Chinese director Anna Hu is so interesting it's a shame that it has to be burdened with such a tepid plot. The film, set in Imperial Peking in 1902, is a fictionalized account of how foreign traveling cameramen-showmen first brought motion pictures to China, and how the Feng Tai Photo Shop eventually came to produce China's first films. Abandoned by his wife and children back home in England, Raymond Wallace (Jared Harris) arrives i... read more leave a comment