Center Stage

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

Runtime: 126 mins

Session Times

Eastend Cinemas

Sun, Sep 20:

13:00

Prospect Cinemas

No sessions running at Prospect this week

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