Still Life (2006)
- Original title
- 三峡好人
- Directed by
- Jia Zhangke
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 174 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Two people travel separately to a small town that is being demolished for a massive dam project. They are each looking for their missing spouse. The film follows their quiet and lonely searches through a landscape that is slowly vanishing.
slow-burnmelancholiccontemplativeobservationalsombergroundedquietlanguid
What happens
Still Life (Chinese: 三峡好人; pinyin: Sānxiá Hǎorén) is a 2006 Chinese film directed by Jia Zhangke. Shot in the old village of Fengjie, a small town on the Yangtze River slowly being destroyed by the building of the Three Gorges Dam, Still Life tells the story of two people in search of their spouses. Still Life is a co-production of the Shanghai Film Studio and Xstream Pictures. The film premiered at the 2006 Venice Film Festival and was a winner of the Golden Lion Award for Best Film. It premiered at a handful of other film festivals and received a limited commercial release in the United States on January 18, 2008, in New York City. Like The World, Jia's previous film, Still Life was accepted by Chinese authorities and was shown uncensored in both mainland China and abroad. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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