SummaryXiao Mei used to live with her grandparents up in the mountains. When she later moves to the city to live with her parents, she finds the place cold and distant as compared to the village she once lived in. She longs for a simple and carefree life, and the experience of lying down on a field at night and looking up to the starry night above. (Chi... Read More
Directed By:Tom Lin
Written By:Jimmy Liao, Tom Lin
Starry Starry Night
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71
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
71
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Jul 5, 2012
90
Crammed with color and imagination, every one of Jake Pollock's gorgeously photographed images feels timelessly suspended between innocence and awareness.
Jul 5, 2012
80
All the popcorn movies you're planning to see will still be at the multiplex if you wait another week. This shimmering beauty will be gone in a flash. Catch it while you can.
Jul 2, 2012
75
A modestly charming bit of whimsy that hopes to speak to anyone who experienced a sense of emotional injustice during their formative years.
Sep 14, 2012
60
The cumulative effect is more that of a handsomely crafted museum piece than a moving, emotional journey.
Jul 5, 2012
60
Lin fills in the gaps with some handsome CG-fantasy sequences and a rather obvious central metaphor involving a missing puzzle piece, but he can't make up for the fact that the film wants to say more about the fragility of childhood than it's capable of communicating through its characters and their delicate, perpetually uncertain situations.
Sep 14, 2012
50
Though rife with clichés, Starry Starry Night has just enough nostalgic melancholy and quiet whimsy to make its coming-of-age narrative and elegy to childhood emotionally and visually compelling.
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Production Company:
- Atom Cinema
- Huayi Brothers Media
- Tomson International Entertainment Distribution
Release Date:Jul 6, 2012
Duration:1 h 39 m
Awards
Beijing Student Film Festival
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Golden Horse Film Festival
• 4 Nominations
Taipei Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
