Yinhe shuangxing

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A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the Shanghai movie scene, with parallels to the true-life story of popular actress Ruan Lingyu. A simple girl is plucked from the countryside by a fam... Read allA fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the Shanghai movie scene, with parallels to the true-life story of popular actress Ruan Lingyu. A simple girl is plucked from the countryside by a famous actor, who romances her and makes her a star, with unhappy results. The film's score i... Read allA fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the Shanghai movie scene, with parallels to the true-life story of popular actress Ruan Lingyu. A simple girl is plucked from the countryside by a famous actor, who romances her and makes her a star, with unhappy results. The film's score is lost, but the engagement of Zi Luolan, an opera star (credited as Violet Wong), to play ... Read all

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6.3/10

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Zhanfei Gao

Kao Che
(as Kao Chien Fei)

Yan Jin

Yang Yee Yun
(as Raymond King)

Jiqun Liu

Li Kuk Tung
(as V. K. Chung)

Law-Lin Tsz

Li Yueh Ying
(as Violet Wong)

Juanjuan Ye

Chuen Ping
(as Yeh Chuen Chuen)

Director
- Dongshan Shi
Writer
- Shilin Zhu
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The film was released in a version with bilingual English/Chinese intertitles.

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6/10

A silent chinese movie that has a similar atmosphere to European silent movies...

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)...

I've voted 6.