6/10
A silent chinese movie that has a similar atmosphere to European silent movies...
23 August 1999
Two Stars in the milky way (known as Deux étoiles dans la voie lactee in french) is a movie that is typically from the 20's and the 30's. The story is quite uninteresting seen from the end of the century : The film shows an impossible love between two stars in the beginning of the chinese cinema... The story is a very classic one : You can see many european and american movies from the same period, that have the same story.

Many details shows that this film has been very influenced by Europe : The music for beginning is a mix of asian (vocal) and european (violon, and music itself) style. You also see at the beginning a statue of Beethoven or Bach (I'm not sure). The film maker team also go to a golf, and men are dressed like english men.

The main things that makes this movie attractive, is that it's a quite old asian movie, and also a chinese movie before communism and that this movie is very similar to european movies. I must also say that the chinese song is really beautiful.

If you want to see a good movie that shows friendship between two actors, you'd better watch Farewall my concubine (Adieu ma concubine in french)...

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