Still Life
(2006)
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Still Life
(2006)
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Zhou Lan | ... |
Huang Mao
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| Sanming Han | ... |
Sanming
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Lizhen Ma | ... |
Missy Ma
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Hongwei Wang | ... |
Wang Dongming
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Kai Chen |
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Ronghu Chen |
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Jian Chieng |
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Chuanan Fang |
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Zhongming He |
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Yong Huang |
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Deping Jiang |
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Shiping Jiang |
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Tianyah Lan |
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Bin Li |
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Coalminer Han Sanming comes from Fengyang in Shanxi to the Three Gorges town Fengjie to look for his ex-wife whom he has not seen for 16 years. The couple meet on the bank of the Yangtze River and vow to remarry. Nurse Shen Hong also comes to Fengjie from Taiyuan in Shanxi to look for her husband who has not been home for two years. The couple embrace each other and waltz under the imposing Three Gorges dam, but feel they are so apart and decide to have a divorce. The old township has been submerged, while a new town has to be built. Life persists in the Three Gorges - what should be taken up is taken up, what should be cast off is cast off. Written by Perry Yu <perry@pobox.com>
Known previously as a documentary, and not as a romance, "Sanxia Haoren" ("Still Life") was the surprise and last film in Venice Festival (Italy) and not even the first one film of the young maker (he already had another movie in competition). Mr Jia shows us China just as it is nowadays. Not the power of huge works, or the beautiful scenery, just as the Dam on the Yangsi River nearby, but simple Chinese people, with simple problems, that do not know nothing such happiness (yet). It's heartbreaking, it's wonderfully filmed, it's like a superb painting. A simple masterpiece (and not only a Golden Lion). The surprise at Venice's Mostra. Catherine Deneuve, the French president of the jury of Venice, was very moved by Jia's work, the story told and the emotion of that film.