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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.
- Xu Pengle, Wang Tianyun, Zhu Jiong
- Lim Giong
Still Life takes place in the final days of Fengjie: water is already lapping at the lowest parts of the city, and the only industry that seems to remain active is the demolition of every standing building.
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 ...
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 Manhattan.
- Zhangke Jia
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
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Nov 16, 2006 · Still Life: Directed by Zhangke Jia. With Tao Zhao, Zhou Lan, Sanming Han, Lizhen Ma. 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.
Mar 8, 2010 · It's a picture seemingly imbued with the hard realism of halting conversation and deep-seated yet somehow accepted character misery, yet it features a conspicuous flying saucer, a building launching off like a rocket, an out-of-place tightrope walker and inexplicable ballroom dancers on a bridge.
