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Still Life
2006
Set against the spectacular landscape of the Three Gorges region, Jia Zhangke's humane and moving Golden-Lion winner tells two contemplative and compassionate stories of a man and woman searching for absent spouses in Fengjie - an ancient town on the Yangtze River which is being demolished and will soon vanish for ever in the .. Read more
| Starring | Tao Zhao, Sanming Han, Zhubin Li, Hong Wei Wang |
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| Director | Jia Zhangke |
| Genres | Documentary, Drama, Romance, World Cinema |
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Still Life
Set against the spectacular landscape of the Three Gorges region, Jia Zhangke's humane and moving Golden-Lion winner tells two contemplative and compassionate stories of a man and woman searching for absent spouses in Fengjie - an ancient town on the Yangtze River which is being demolished and will soon vanish for ever in the flooding caused by the controversial Three Gorges hydroelectric dam project.
| Starring | Tao Zhao, Sanming Han, Zhubin Li, Hong Wei Wang, Haiyu Xiang |
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| Director | Jia Zhangke |
| Studio | BFI VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 48 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Documentary, Drama, Romance, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Mandarin |
| Released | Production year: 2006 To Rent: DVD: 25 Aug 2008 |
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Ironies abound in the latest by Chinaâs greatest contemporary cinematic chronicler Jia Zhangke: Thereâs politics in... read more on Time Out
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- 04 Nov 2008 at 00:20
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Never before after seeing a movie have I found it so difficult to decide how to rate it.Seen simply as a documentary, showing how 'progess' can destroy... read more »
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- 14 Sep 2008 at 17:11
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Three Gorgeous
Another real look at life in modern China; I was particularly interested in the setting as I had visited the Three Gorges Dam the year before this was filmed. ... read more »
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From the slow opening panning shot of passengers on a ferry which in itself is a microcosm of current Chinese society one knows one is in for something special... read more »
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Despite the great reviews, we were disappointed. Did we miss something? If so, please tell us!
The film was slow and seemed, at least to us, to ... read more » - 720741
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- 05 Feb 2008
It's just an educated guess, but when people look back at today's era in movies from the perspective of, say, 2040, I reckon the Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke will be seen as one of the four or five most important figures. Partly this is a matter of being in the right place at the right time - Jia was born in 1970, in the province of Shanxi, which was also the setting for his first few films: Xiao Wu (aka Pickpocket, 1997), his masterpiece Platform (2000), and Unknown Pleasures (2002). It's... Read more
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Set against the spectacular landscape of the Three Gorges region, Jia Zhangke's humane and moving Golden-Lion winner tells two contemplative and compassionate stories of a man and woman searching for absent spouses in Fengjie - an ancient town on the Yangtze River which is being demolished and will ...
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