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Center Stage
Directed by
Stanley Kwan
1991
2h 34m
NR
Drama
,
Romance
,
Biography
7.4
92%
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Biopic of 1930s Chinese actress Lingyu Ruan.
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Cast of Center Stage
Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk
Ruan Ling-yu / Self
Tony Leung Ka-fai
Tsai Chu-sheng / Self
Carina Lau
Lily Li / Self
Chin Han
Tang Chi-Shan
Chen Yan-yan
Self
Zi Xiong Li
Li Min-Wei
Cecilia Yip
Lin Chu-Chu
Kelvin Wong
Nier Erh
Yip San
Ms. Liu
Ruan Lingyu
Self (archive footage)
Daisy Tian Dai
Hsiao-Yu (3 years)
Ta-Nan Huang
Self
Li Lili
Self
Lawrence Ng
Chang Ta-Min
Stanley Kwan
Self
Yumiko Cheng
Paul Chang Chung
Center Stage Reviews
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
The luminous Maggie Cheung, who deservedly won the Berlin Festival Acting Award, offers a sensitive portrait of the popular actress Ruan Ling-Yu (she was compared to Garbo), who committed suicide over a scandal in her personal life.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
An overwhemingly moving tribute to the popular Hong Kong actress Ruan Ling-yu of the 1930s...
RogerEbert.com
Sheila O'Malley
A biopic like no other.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
...Kwan's bold approach is something like analyzing a film in real time, his intertwining of feature scenes, interviews with actors and filmmakers...plus clips from what remains of her work enriching the experience.
Reeling Reviews
Robin Clifford
I am shocked that no resourceful docu-maker has taken on Ruan Lingyun as a subject I now want to know more about.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Always interesting if not always involving.
Movie Nation
Roger Moore
Kwan's approach is so quiet, intimate and slow that the whole affair...feels like a lacquered-over still-life.
Video Librarian Magazine
Kathy Fennessy
If Center Stage represents the more difficult proposition, it confirms [Maggie Cheung's] status as one of Hong Kong's brightest and most beautiful stars.
New Yorker
Richard Brody
The self-aware drama moves at the hypnotic pace of an elusive dream-above all, in spectacularly staged musical scenes, set in a night club, merging sinuous and languid dances with high-stakes emotional battles.
Film Inquiry
Lee Jutton
One hopes that this new restoration of Center Stage reignites interest not just in the film, which is an absolute masterpiece in its own right, but in the life and career of Ruan Lingyu.
4Columns
Andrew Chan
Few biopics have so eloquently interrogated the very foundations of the genre: our desire for intimacy with the stars and our sense of being entitled to knowledge of their personal lives.
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