Still Life (2008)

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Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

More than a million people have been displaced in central China in the cause of generating electrical power to meet the needs of the future; Jia's flowing river of a picture washes over a few of them as they adjust to life's currents in the present.Read the full review

The New York Times | Manohla DargisAdd Critic to Favorites

A modern master of postmodern discontent, Jia Zhang-ke is among the most strikingly gifted filmmakers working today whom you have probably never heard of.Read the full review

Variety | Derek ElleyAdd Critic to Favorites

Has almost zero plot but molto mood. It will appeal to the most faithful of the director's camp-followers and no one else.Read the full review

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  • Film: Review: 24 City

    06/04/09 Situated in Chengdu—a region most recently known for the devastating earthquake of 2008—the building referenced in the title of Jia Zhang-ke's 24 City is a luxury apartment complex intended to house the winners of the Chinese market boom.  |  The A.V. Club
  • SFIFF Review: Still Life

    05/07/08 Moviefone With only a handful of films to his credit, Sixth Generation Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke has become one of the world's great master filmmakers, and he has the lack of distribution to prove it.  |  Cinematical.com