Center Stage (1991)

阮玲玉

Blending historical reconstruction with contemporary reflection, Center Stage revisits the life of 1930s screen icon Ruan Lingyu through a self-reflexive cinematic form. By interweaving reenactment, archival material and present-day interviews, the film collapses temporal distance and foregrounds the act of looking itself. On an audiovisual level, shifting textures and performance registers emphasise history as something continuously re-staged rather than fixed, transforming biography into a meditation on stardom, gender and spectatorship.

Rating

PG

Duration

126 min

Language

Cantonese, Mandarin, English

Cast

Maggie Cheung, Chin Han, Tony Ka Fai Leung

Director

Stanley Kwan

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