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Feb 1, 2008 · Still Life is a palimpsest of ideas and intentions - a meditation on mortality, a contemporary drama-documentary about an entire city preparing to be drowned in the service of China's Three Gorges ...
Aug 25, 2008 · Still Life - STILL LIFE - A 2006 Documentary-Like Drama from Chinese Director Jia Zhang-Ke It's not often that a movie depicts the transformation of an entire landscape, but that's what we see in Still Life (Sanxia haoren), a docudrama filmed in the area behind China's massive Three Gorges Dam project.
Oct 18, 2020 · The Chinese movie Still Life, a surprise entry set against the backdrop of China's gigantic Three Gorges Dam project, won this year's Golden Lion - the top award at the Venice Film Festival - on ...
Show all movies in the JustWatch Streaming Charts. Streaming charts last updated: 5:16:13 PM, 05/07/2024 . Still Life is 9937 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 5667 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Flawless but less popular than Masculin Féminin.
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Still Life, which won the Golden Lion at the 2006 Venice Film Festival, is a visually stunning movie. Writer and director Jia Zhangke ( Unknown Pleasures, The World) has a keen sense of the fragility of relationships and the impermanence of life. His philosophical perspective is revealed in this quotation:
There's something about Still Life that just feels ephemeral in how grounded it is. Two stories that are connected by just a strand, really, but in doing so director Jia Zhangke changes the perspective we tend to have when we go into movies: many of us view films from an individual context, a way to empathize with specific people in specific circumstances, but as a result of identifying with ...
