Sanming Han, Hongwei Wang, Tao Zhao
Shot in the old village of Fengjie, which has been destroyed by the building of China's Three Gorges Dam, it recounts the story of people who come back to Fengjie during the upheaval. A miner comes ba...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 25, 2008
Stats: 242 reviews
a subtle and beautiful film about the modernization, culture, and uncertain future of china. zhang ke jia is certainly making a name for himself as one of china's greatest modern filmmakers.
What a lonely place the world is for so many. As we lurch forward in the name of modernity we always seem ironically becoming more and more isolated as the world around us gets smaller and smaller.
This conflict lies at the heart of Zhang Ki Jia's haunting film Still Life. Altho...( read more)
The film tells two parallel stories of two people searching for their families in the vicinity of the presently-completed Three Gorges Dam project- a massive hydroelectric dam on the Yangtze River that submerged entire towns and displaced 1 million people, just another cost in th...( read more)
Never has a title been more fit to describe the feel of a movie as it is the case with Still Life. The whole film is practically made out of a series of well composed shots that parade across the screen at their leisure, some slowly, some quite rapidly, but none the less, all thr...( read more)
LETTERBOX. Sutil e irónica como pocas, conmueve con su contemplación de las naturalezas muertas que vienen y van, que se construyen y deconstruyen. / Subtle and ironic like few films are, it moves with its contemplation of still lives that come and go, that are constructed and de...( read more)
A film about changing China, about the drama of everyday life, about love and desperation. An astonishing film by one of contemporary China's most promising directors.
too slow, not much plot. maybe better if the characters had crossed paths or something ? as it was it may as well have been two movies because the two plots are only loosely connected, and only thematically. nice imagery though.
This film totally blew my mind. I came to it with no expectation and was left with the utmost respect for who is said to be one of the new great directors of mainland China. The cinematography, sound, and locations are vibrant, in constant motion. The characters are lethargic and...( read more)
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