Still Life
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- Movie: Still Life
- Chinese: Sanxia haoren / 三峡好人
- Director: Jia Zhangke
- Writer: Jia Zhangke, Na Guan
- Producer:
- Cinematographer:
- Release Date: November 16, 2006
- Runtime: 108 min
- Language: Mandarin
- Country: China
Plot
Fengjie’s old town is yet under water, but its new neighbourhood hasn’t been finished yet. There are things to salvage, others to leave behind… Han Sanming, a miner, travels there to find his ex-wife whom he has not seen in 16 years. Shen Hong, a nurse, goes to Fengjie to look for her husband who hasn’t come home in two years…
Notes
Shot as a semi-documentary, Still Life tells of the sentimental anxieties of a series of characters in a town that will soon be submerged due to the building of a dam (the original Chinese title means "The Good People of the Three Gorges"). Disoriented people who don’t know how to find their space in the changing world Jia Zhangke portrays. The director continues to reveal his talent as an infallible witness of the changes his country is undergoing, in a masterpiece of great aesthetic and emotional depth, which the director takes out of Beijing for the first time, to the province of Shanxi. Jia Zhangke traveled to the region where the gigantic construction of one of the Yangsté river dams is being done, to film a documentary on painter Liu Xiadong, which was a starting point for this work.
Awards
63rd Silver Lion Award for Best Film at Venice Film Festival
Cast
- Tao Zhao ... Shen Hong
- Sanming Han ... Han Sanming
- Zhubin Li
- Hong Wei Wang
- Haiyu Xiang
- Lin Zhou
Trailer
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Film Festivals
- 2006 (7th) TOKYO FILMeX - November 17th-26th - Special Screenings
- 2010 (34th) Sao Paulo International Film Festival - October 22-November 4, 2010
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