2006 1h 48m Jia Zhangke

Still Life

Name: Still Life
Genre: Romance, Drama, Made in Europe
Released: 2006
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Han Sanming, Zhao Tao, Wang Hongwei, Zhubin Li

★ 7.3 IMDb

Romance Drama Made in Europe

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.

Writer Jia Zhangke

Cast Han Sanming, Zhao Tao, Wang Hongwei, Zhubin Li

DP Yu Lik-wai

Music Lim Giong

Essays and Criticism

On this film

Virtual Standstill By Tibor Hirsch by the way, FIPRESCI Waiting For An Unnatural Disaster: Still Life (2006) by Cheng Mun Chang, Bright Wall/Dark Room

On Jia Zhangke

Jia Zhangke by Tony Rayns, Cinema Scope Jia Zhangke and the Chinese Century by Mark Asch, MUBI Notebook Zhangke Going Home: Retrospection in the Cinema of Jia Zhangke by Bart Versteirt, photogénie

In conversation with other films

Chamber Music, Sculpture and Still Lives By N. T. Binh by Nguyen Trong Binh, FIPRESCI

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