Still Life
2006 · Movie · 108 min · ★ 7.2 · 87% critics
As a riverside town is torn down and prepared to be flooded for a massive dam project, two visitors arrive separately, each searching for an estranged spouse. Moving through rubble, temporary housing, and shifting communities, they witness everyday lives reshaped by displacement, uncertain work, and the uneasy push of rapid change.
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Details
- Original title
- 三峡好人
- Years
- 2006
- Release date
- 2006-11-16
- Language
- Chinese
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Critic score
- 87/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 (174 votes)
About
You’ll likely connect with this if you enjoy patient, reflective dramas about ordinary people facing upheaval and change, like Platform or 24 City; Not for you if you want fast pacing, clear plot turns, or constant excitement.
Pros: quietly moving human stories; vivid sense of place; thoughtful social portrait | Cons: very slow pacing; sparse dialogue; low on plot
Themes
- worker
- china
- loss of loved one
- demolition
- barrage
- resettlement
Awards & recognition
- Golden Lion · 2006
Cast & crew
Han Sanming
as San-Ming Han
Zhao Tao
as Shen-Hong Guo
Wang Hongwei
as Dong Ming-Wan
- ZL
Zhubin Li
as Guo Bin
- HX
Haiyu Xiang
- LZ
Lin Zhou
as Brother Mark
- LM
Lizhen Ma
as Missy Ma
- ZL
Zhou Lan
- YH
Yong Huang
- JL
Jingsheng Li
Directed by Jia Zhangke