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- 2008
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- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 51 m
- 2008
- Unrated
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 51 m
Summary 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)
Directed By: Zhangke Jia
Written By: Na Guan, Jiamin Sun, Zhangke Jia
- 2008
- Unrated
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 51 m
- 2008
- Unrated
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 51 m
Still Life
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8.8
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Summary 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)
Directed By: Zhangke Jia
Written By: Na Guan, Jiamin Sun, Zhangke Jia
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Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
81
90% Positive
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10% Mixed
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The first great film of the year. It’s beautiful but so much more—full of subtle feeling, framed by a monstrous, eroding landscape.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Despite all this desolation and depression, however, Still Life is an extremely beautiful movie.
Has almost zero plot but molto mood. It will appeal to the most faithful of the director's camp-followers and no one else.
Production Company
Xstream Pictures,
Shanghai Film Studios
Release Date Jan 18, 2008
Duration 1 h 51 m
Rating Unrated
Genres
Awards
Asian Film Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
SESC Film Festival, Brazil
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
