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The Three Gorges Dam Project has, understandably, provided a rich vein of inspiration for Chinese filmmakers in the past couple of years. The project to establish the largest capacity hydroelectric power station in the world has required the flooding of the Yangtze River basin, leading to the displacement of more than 1.5 million people, as their towns were flooded in the name of progress.
Still Life. Audience Score. 72. NR 1 hr 48 min Drama. A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam A man and woman visit the town to ...
Still Life is a 2013 drama film written and directed by Uberto Pasolini. [1] [2] The film was presented at the 70th Venice Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Director in the category "Orizzonti". [3] At the Reykjavik International Film Festival, Still Life received the top award (Golden Puffin) as well as the FIPRESCI Award. [4]
Synopsis. A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.
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132 minutes. Countries. China, Taiwan. Language. Mandarin. Box office. $2.3 million (US/Canada) [1] To Live, also titled Lifetimes in some English versions, [2] is a 1994 Chinese drama film directed by Zhang Yimou and written by Lu Wei, based on the novel of the same name by Yu Hua. It was produced by the Shanghai Film Studio and ERA ...
Jul 29, 2017 · Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke likes to slow things down so that they can be clearly observed. For Platform (2000), Unknown Pleasures (2002) and The World (2004) – the trilogy that will probably ...
Nov 25, 2008 · Still Life, winner Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival 2006, is an empathetic portrait of those left behind by a modernizing society and, as in director Jia Zhang-ke’s earlier films (Platform, Unknown Pleasures, The World), it is a unique hybrid of documentary and fiction.
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