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China, Hong Kong · 2018
Rated PG-13 · 1h 56m
Director Zhang Yimou
Starring Deng Chao, Sun Li, Ryan Zheng Kai, Wang Qian-Yuan
Genre Action, Drama
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In this fantasy-filled period drama set in the Three Kings era of China, a king attempts to lead his displaced people out of exile, and those who play a role in his mysterious plans.
The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij
The real star of the show here is the strikingly gorgeous, often almost bi-chrome visual universe, inspired by the tai chi diagram — more commonly known in the West as yin-and-yang symbol — and traditional ink-brush painting, with its distinct combination of rich blacks and fluid shades of gray.
Screen International by Demetrios Matheou
After the disappointing martial-monster mash-up of The Great Wall, this represents a return to the majesty and emotional finesse of Hero and House of Flying Daggers.
Every supremely controlled stylistic element of Zhang Yimou’s breathtakingly beautiful Shadow is an echo of another, a motif repeated, a pattern recurring in a fractionally different way each time.
The Film Stage by Leonardo Goi
Shadow brings heart and spectacle together, and the result is a bombastic martial arts wuxia replete with duels of breath-taking beauty that will please longtime Zhang acolytes and newbies alike.
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