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Still Life
Directed by
Jia Zhangke
Not Rated
2006
1h 48m
Drama
,
Romance
7.3
91%
80%
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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.
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Cast of Still Life
Han Sanming
San-Ming Han
Zhao Tao
Shen-Hong Guo
Wang Hongwei
Dong Ming-Wan
Zhubin Li
Guo Bin
Haiyu Xiang
Lin Zhou
Brother Mark
Lizhen Ma
Missy Ma
Zhou Lan
Yong Huang
Jingsheng Li
Jianlin Pan
Yougzhong Li
Yongming Zhai
Motion Capture 丁亚玲
Still Life Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Still Life is the first great film of the year. It's beautiful but so much more--full of subtle feeling, framed by a monstrous, eroding landscape.
Seattle Times
Ted Fry
An extraordinary glimpse into the psychology, subtext and austere reality of modern Chinese culture.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
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.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Never has destruction looked more beautiful than the demolished buildings in Jia Zhang-ke's Still Life.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Stamets
Jia Zhang-ke is a new auteur making his mark. Embraced abroad on the international festival circuit, if less welcome on screens in China, this writer-director works in a genre that could be called globalist.
Newsday
John Anderson
The results are exhilarating, expertly choreographed and a movie to change one's view of both cinema and life.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
In Still Life, the blood and the sweat run directly into the Yangtze River, where they mingle with more than a few tears.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
These searches are not particularly suspenseful or emotionally stirring, but they're excuse enough for us to take in the breath-taking views of Three Gorges, the river and the razing of buildings along its banks.
Austin Chronicle
Jenny Nulf
In Still Life, with progress comes change, and it doesn't care if you are ready for it or not.
Film.com
Jonathan F. Richards
Writer-director Jia Zhangke is a keen observer of the effects of the break-neck modernization that is stampeding China toward a future that no one can predict, control, or contain.
The Deadbolt
Brian Tallerico
Still Life can be frustratingly slow but it's the effect that it has in the hours and days after the lights come up that makes it such a remarkable experience.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Logan Hill
More than any other director, the extraordinarily gifted Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke has a talent for locating the future in the present day.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
What's striking about Still Life is its micro-analytical curiosity: Judgment seems suspended -- like the bridge that magically lights up over the Yangtze or the unlikely tightrope walker glimpsed in the movie's last shot.
Slant Magazine
Fernando F. Croce
Jia Zhangke has an uncanny knack for grounding his portraits of Chinese alienation in settings that are at once schematically allegorical and tangibly lived-in.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Both a docudrama with obvious social and historical relevance and a subtle, slow, quietly powerful chronicle of human loss.
The New Yorker
David Denby
Despite all this desolation and depression, Still Life is an extremely beautiful movie: the river and the green mountains on both sides of it extend into the distance in majestic panoply; gray clouds hang over the scene like painted backdrops.
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
More than just a window into a disappearing world, it is a requiem for the soul of a nation.
The Hollywood Reporter
Justin Lowe
The film lacks sufficient individuatism or narrative drive to compellingly propel Jia's script (co-written with Sun Jianmin and Guan Na), making its title all too true.
MUBI
Mike Archibald
...the neo-realism of Jia shooting his latest film "Still Life" around the actual Three Gorges Dam is stunning. It is a fresh, relieving change of course from the previous film's overwrought, overburdened allegorical setting.
NPR's Fresh Air
John Powers
Jia is a great director, and much of Still Life's power comes from the way he depicts his characters moving through the landscape... Jia's eye for composition recalls Antonioni in its rigor and poetry, but he isn't after mere pictorial splendor.
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