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.
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Still Life
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A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.
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Simply one of the best films of last year, this year, or any year likely to come.
An extraordinary glimpse into the psychology, subtext and austere reality of modern Chinese culture.
Never has destruction looked more beautiful than the demolished buildings in Jia Zhang-ke's Still Life.
Writer-director Jia Zhangke is a keen observer of the effects of the break-neck modernization that is stampeding China toward a future that no one can predict, control, or contain.
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