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

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)

Trailer

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