Still Life (2008)
About this movie
- Synopsis
- Jia Zhang Ke's haunting minimalist drama Still Life (aka Sanxia Haoren) takes as its focal point the real-life construction of the Three Gorges Hydro Project and it accompanying massive dam over the Yangtze River in China (allegedly the largest ......
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- Starring
- Zhao Tao, Han Sanming, Wang Hong Wei, Li Zhubin, Xiang Haiyu
- Director(s)
- Jia Zhang Ke
- Distributor(s)
- New Yorker
- MPAA Rating
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 108 min.
Critic Reviews
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
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
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