Still Life (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Still life |
| Original title | Sanxia haoren 三峡 好人 |
| Country of production | People's Republic of China |
| original language | Mandarin |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jia Zhangke |
| script | Jia Zhangke Na Guan Jiamin Sun |
| production |
Tianyan Wang Pengle Xu Jiong Zhu |
| music | Giong Lim |
| camera | Nelson Yu Lik-wai |
| cut | Jing Lei Kong |
| occupation | |
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Still Life ( Chinese 三峡 好人 , Pinyin Sānxiá hǎorén ) is a social drama by the Chinese director Jia Zhangke from 2006.
action
Two people come to Fengjie City at the Three Gorges Dam . In search of their former partners, they wander around in a city that will soon have to give way to the tides. The miner Han Sanming travels to Fengjie from Shanxi because he wants to find his wife again, who left him with her little daughter 16 years ago. It turns out that she had been bought by Sanming at the time and then released from the forced marriage by the police. But the street in which she lived had to give way to the water long ago. So Sanming hires a demolition worker and starts researching the missing women.
Nurse Shen Hong also comes to town because she is looking for her husband, Guo Bin. She last saw him two years ago. Now she wants to know whether he already lives with another woman or whether he still loves her. However, the husband is very busy so she cannot see him right away. When she finally meets him, she says she loves another man with whom she wants to move to Shanghai and wants to divorce Guo Bin.
backgrounds
The recording was made in HDTV ( HDV ) with the Sony HVR-Z1 camera .
Reviews
"Corruption, environmental outrage and the loss of traditional ways of life are conveyed in Jia Zhang-Kes' film, despite building noise and ruins, in images of great beauty and contemplative silence."
“The experiences of the characters from very different social classes provide insights into the extremely contradictory situation of people in the emerging economic power. The calm, careful camera work, the aesthetic appeal of which is in stark contrast to the misery of the common people, creates memorable images of metaphorical quality, large panoramas of destruction as well as phenomenologically precise observations. "
"It is a poetic and at the same time political film about the disastrous consequences of the Three Gorges Dam in China and a metaphor about the decline of humanity."
“Jia Zhangke's film revolves around the everyday, even the banal - smoking, eating, walking, chatting - and yet wants to tell about something really big: the (psychological) consequences of neo-capitalism in China. Does he succeed? The answer is probably in the eye of the beholder. While some immerse themselves for hours in the still lifes of old masters and always discover new things, others just take a quick glance. It will be the same with this film. "
Awards
- Still Life received the Golden Lion at the 2006 Venice Film Festival .
Individual evidence
- ↑ epd film 10/2007 p. 7 and p. 48
- ↑ Still Life. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Film review at kino.de
- ↑ Film review on Cinema.de ( memento of the original from October 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Still Life in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Still Life atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Interview with the director in the TAZ about the arbitrariness of the Chinese censorship