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Format: DVD
Oct 2008
Not Rated
Recording Mode: (unknown)
108 min.
Color
UPC: 717119111748 |
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Movie Description
This meditative film from Chinese director Jia Jhang Ke follows the parallel quests of two characters: a miner looking for his wife, and a nurse searching for her husband. Taking place in a small town about to be buried beneath the flow of the Three Gorges Dam, STILL LIFE's loosely structured narrative and evocative photography offer an intriguing portrait of China's quickly changing way of life.
Industry Reviews
"A modern master of postmodern discontent, Jia Zhang-ke is among the most strikingly gifted filmmakers working today whom you have probably never heard of."
New York Times - Manohla Dargis (01/18/2008)
"Jia senses a connection between the loaded setting and the vagaries of the heart, making this his most mysterious film -- and his most poignant."
Sight and Sound - Tony Rayns (02/01/2008)
4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his is as much a record of an unsought twilight as a narrative drama..."
Empire - Patrick Peters (03/01/2008)
"Zhang-ke reveals the environment's haunting beauty by using striking photographic compositions and injecting a few surreal occurrences."
Box Office - John P. McCarthy (03/01/2008)
"[The director] here turns his extraordinary eye on the apocalyptic engineering feat on the Yangtze River that is the Three Gorges Dam." -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum (02/22/2008)
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