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ShowTime ( Stanley Kwan ) - Carina Lau; Hu Jun UPCOMING 4 2011 RELEASE
Topic Started: Oct 20 2009, 02:40 PM (1,480 Views)
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Kwan to shoot Chinese musical in Shanghai
Hong Kong director Stanley Kwan is gearing up to shoot Chinese-language musical Energy Behind The Heart (working title) in Shanghai, with a top-flight cast and crew including DoP Christopher Doyle.

William Chang Suk-ping has been recruited as art director of the film about a group of drama school graduates struggling to survive in show business.

Four young actors from Shanghai Drama Academy will head the cast, while leading stars Carina Lau, Hu Jun, Li Bingbing and Deng Chao will provide guest performances. Production is scheduled to start on June 20.

Investors in the film include Shanghai-based artist management and film investment company Starlight Media, state-owned Shanghai Film Group and Beijing-based Asia Pacific China Films.

Established in early 2009, Asia Pacific China Films has shareholders in hotel, real estate and energy businesses. Its sister company, Asia Pacific Entertainment Investment, has a film and TV investment fund of $29.28m (RMB200m).

Beijing Polybona Film Distribution will handle mainland distribution of Energy Behind The Heart, while Hong Kong-based Golden Scene is likely to handle international sales, according to Kwan.

Meanwhile, Kwan’s previously announced Bangkok-set project He Is, He Isn’t has changed investors from Beijing-based J.A. Media to another Beijing film company, Zong Tang Culture. Kwan said he hopes to start shooting the $4.4m (RMB30m) film after Energy Behind The Heart.
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Stanley Kwan's ShowTime will have it's premiere at the 67th Venice International Film Festival - Out Of Competition
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Director Stanley Kwan re-examines his familiar Shanghai through the lens of a performance academy where two troupes – one transported across time from the 1930s, the other one very much of today – are forced to act as one to put on a contemporary show. Where one group emphasises traditional skills and core competences, the other one stresses performance and self-expression. Can the torch be successfully passed from one generation to the next? How can old and new remain in step with each other? While the story is told through performance and music, the city of Shanghai also has lessons for the youth of both eras.
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Showtime
By Derek Elley

Incoherent, wannabe musical drama fumbles the ball at every level. Festivals still loyal to director Stanley Kwan's name.

Story
Shanghai, 2009. After four years of studying, a group of dance students are wished well by their teacher (Huang Lei) as they start rehearsals for their graduation performance. Meanwhile, five members of a 1936 Shanghai theatre troupe, lead by Master Liu (Hu Jun), are transported into the present to broaden their horizons. They start by forming a home cleaning service, Cleaning Babes, but soon get bored with both that and modern Shanghai. They're joined by one of the dance students, Jixiang, and are told by the witch-like Natasha that, if each of them can attract two apprentices and all 18 people then perform together, the "time spell" under which they're trapped in 2009 will be broken by the combined vibrations of their group performance. They descend on the academy to find apprentices, joining in (and bringing their own different skills to) the graduation performance.

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The idea behind Showtime (用心跳) - melding new and old Shanghai through two groups of performance students from 2009 and 1936 - is potentially interesting, but its execution by Hong Kong scriptwriter Jimmy Ngai (魏紹恩) and director Stanley Kwan (關錦鵬) is clumsy, pretentious and poorly dialogued, with little to say apart from artistic platitudes and with none of the release that could have come from well-staged song-and-dance numbers. Bowie Lau's (劉寶賢) Qingdao-set Kung Fu Hip-Hop 2 (精舞門2) had more energy and cultural commentary than Kwan's movie, which too often plays like a vamp-till-ready lead-up to big numbers which either never come or are cut off halfway.

The dramatic decline as a director by Kwan (who needs a strong script to work from) can be directly traced to his partnership with Ngai since Hold You Tight (愈快樂愈墮落, 1998). Showtime, Kwan's first feature since Everlasting Regret (長恨歌, 2005), is somewhere down there with his and Ngai's all-time train wreck, The Island Tales (有時跳舞, 2000), and has only the youthful energy of some of the (real-life) students from Shanghai Theatre Academy and Shanghai Conservatory of Music to recommend it. Clunky editing by William Chang (張叔平) and lacklustre photography by Christopher Doyle (杜可風) are well below par for these two consummate professionals, and a series of meaningless cameos by people like actress Carina Lau (劉嘉玲), comedian Fan Wei (范偉), Doyle himself and Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Kar-fai (梁家輝) simply add to the general wreckage. The only actors to emerge with some dignity are Hu Jun as the 1936 drama troupe master and TV drama star Huang Lei (黃磊) in a couple of brief scenes as the modern students' teacher.
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