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Director: Raúl Ruiz
Cast: Jean Badin, Jean-Bernard Guillard, Franck Oger
A series of compounding dramatic situations, drawn from Georges Polti's '36 Dramatic Situations' and acted out in shadowplay and voiceover.
Critical Reception & Ratings
Chinese Shadows (1982), directed by Raúl Ruiz, is a critically acclaimed experimental drama that draws from Georges Polti's '36 Dramatic Situations' and utilizes shadowplay and voiceover to explore a series of complex dramatic scenarios. While the film's unconventional approach has made it somewhat divisive among audiences, it has been recognized for its innovative cinematic style.
Chinese Shadows is a book written by Simon Leys, which is the pseudonym for Belgian Sinologist Pierre Ryckmans. It was originally published in the French language in 1974 under the title Ombres chinoises, and was then translated into English in 1977. The book is about Leys' six-month stay in China, which he made in 1972. Leys discusses the cultural and political destruction of the People's Republic of China by Mao Zedong, who was the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party at the time. He wrote under a pseudonym since, like other academics and journalists who refrained from criticizing China, he did not want to be barred from future visits to Beijing (Peking).
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