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Still Life
New Yorker Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Tao Zhao,
and
Sanming Han
Sam Ming makes a trip to the City of Fenjge to find his ex-wife and daughter. He has not seen them for several years. (Ad Vitam)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Zhang Ke Jia
Na Guan
Jiamin Sun
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Zhang Ke Jia
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 25, 2008
Theatrical: January 18, 2008
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
108 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
China / Hong Kong |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Mandarin |
Alternative Title: Sanxia haoren

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Few of China's Sixth Generation filmmakers have turned to their country's explosive economic growth and its attendant upheavals with so sharp an eye and so heavy a heart as Jia Zhang-ke.

100
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
More than a million people have been displaced in central China in the cause of generating electrical power to meet the needs of the future; Jia's flowing river of a picture washes over a few of them as they adjust to life's currents in the present.

100
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The first great film of the year. It’s beautiful but so much more—full of subtle feeling, framed by a monstrous, eroding landscape.

88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Kamal AL-Solaylee
Perhaps Jia is trying to prove the point that the future has already arrived. Or perhaps he is suggesting that the truth is stranger than science fiction. This is today's China: Anything is possible.

80
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
This 2006 drama may seem to be worlds apart from the surreal theme-park setting of Jia's previous film, "The World," but there are similarities of theme, style, scale, and tone: social and romantic alienation in a monumental setting, a daring poetic mix of realism and lyrical fantasy, and an uncanny sense of where our planet is drifting.

80
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
As usual, Jia's people tend toward the opaque--one of the movie's most enthusiastic conversations is conducted with ringtones. But his compositions have their own eloquence. Everything's despoiled and yet--as rendered in cinematographer Yu Lik-wai's rich, impossibly crisp HD images--everything is beautiful.

80
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
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.

75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
There is no turning back; the biggest project in China since the Great Wall and the Grand Canal has claimed its human cost and now must prove its own worth. -

70
The New Yorker
David Denby
Despite all this desolation and depression, however, Still Life is an extremely beautiful movie.

50
Variety
Derek Elley
Has almost zero plot but molto mood. It will appeal to the most faithful of the director's camp-followers and no one else.


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