Still Life
by Jia Zhang Ke
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Actor: Zhou Lan, Sanming Han Tao ZhaoDirector: Jia Zhang Ke
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Mandarin Chinese (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-11-25
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: New Yorker
Movie Reviews of Still Life
Movie Review: Extraordinary look at contemporary China
Summary: 5 Stars
Jia Zhang-ke's melancholic film "Still Life" is about the search for a personal past amidst the destruction of the present. A man and a woman travel separately to the Three Gorges part of China looking for their lost spouses. But the towns along the Yantze River are being torn down and obliterated by the construction of a mammoth hydroelectric project. Paradoxically, archeologists still search for ancient artifacts as their surroundings are being systematically destroyed. The loneliness and despair that the people in the film display reflects a society where the speed of industrialization, corruption and political powerlessness create a feeling of hopelessness and inertia; perhaps that's the meaning of the film's title, although to survive economically, workers must always be on the move. Zhang-ke has a quasi-documentary film style that captures the mundane aspects of the everyday life of his primarily working-class characters. He introduces a few fantasy elements without comment--a UFO blazes through the sky and the shell of an apartment building becomes a rocket ship. Perhaps only the supernatural can come to the rescue of these disenfranchised people.
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