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This film is a curiosity that barely qualifies as cinema. It works because Joe Wong is a genuinely talented musician whose skill on the violin transcends the primitive recording technology of 1929. It fails because the static, uninspired direction of Bryan Foy offers nothing to look at, treating the camera like a bored...
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"This film is a curiosity that barely qualifies as cinema. It works because Joe Wong is a genuinely talented musician whose skill on the violin transcends the primitive recording technology of 1929. It fails because the static, uninspired direction of Bryan Foy offers nothing to look at, treating the camera like a bored spectator in the fifth row. You should watch it if you are a scholar of the Vitaphone era or the history of Asian-American performers; you should avoid it if you expect a movie wi..."
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