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Still Life (Chinese: 三峡好人; pinyin: Sānxiá Hǎorén) is a 2006 Chinese film directed by Jia Zhangke. Shot in the old village of Fengjie, a small town on the Yangtze River slowly being destroyed by the building of the Three Gorges Dam, Still Life tells the story of two people in search of their spouses.
Nov 16, 2006 · Known previously as a documentary, and not as a romance, "Sanxia Haoren" ("Still Life") was the surprise and last film in Venice Festival (Italy) and not even the first one film of the young maker (he already had another movie in competition). Mr Jia shows us China just as it is nowadays.
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- Drama
- Zhangke Jia
- 2006-11-16
Sep 24, 2020 · “Still Life” has a deceptively simple story. For the first third of the movie, Sanming, played by Han Sanming, travels to the town of Fengjie, which is scheduled to be permanently flooded over after construction of a dam on the Yangtze River.
- Charles Ealy
Jan 18, 2008 · Still Life. Zhangke spellbindingly captures the human cost of rapid industrialization in modern China. Still Life, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2006, is a unique...
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- Han Sanming
- Zhang-Ke Jia
- Shanghai Film Studio
Sep 21, 2020 · Still Life (dir. Jia Zhang-ke, China, 2006) - Official US Trailer - On DVD & Blu-ray Now! Still Life, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2006, is an empathetic portrait of...
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- Big World Pictures
Jan 18, 2008 · His canvas is China, where, as the indelible image of a tightrope walker in “Still Life” suggests, people navigate the fine line between heaven and earth. STILL LIFE Opens on Friday in...
Jan 30, 2008 · If Jia’s four previous features trace the trajectory of a rapidly modernizing China by focusing on a group of young men and women who either bear direct witness to change or who have already absorbed it , then this latest feature, Still Life, offers an entirely different perspective by directly transplanting its unwitting central figure from ...
