Still Life (2006 film)

This article is about the Chinese film. For the 2006 American film, see Still Life (disambiguation).
Still Life
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese三峽好人
Simplified Chinese三峡好人
Literal meaningGood People of the Three Gorges
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinSānxiá Hǎorén
Directed byJia Zhangke
Written byJia Zhangke
Sun Jianming
Guan Na
Produced byXu Pengle
Wang Tianyun
Zhu Jiong
StarringZhao Tao
Han Sanming
CinematographyYu Lik-wai
Edited byKong Jinglei
Music byLim Giong
Distributed byXstream Pictures
Release dates
  • September 5, 2006 (2006-09-05) (Venice)
  • January 18, 2008 (2008-01-18) (United States)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryChina
LanguagesStandard Mandarin Chinese
Jin Chinese
Sichuanese

Still Life (Chinese: 三峡好人; pinyin: Sānxiá Hǎorén) is a 2006 Chinese film directed by Jia Zhangke. Shot in the old village of Fengjie, a small town on the Yangtze River slowly being destroyed by the building of the Three Gorges Dam, Still Life tells the story of two people in search of their spouses. Still Life is a co-production of the Shanghai Film Studio and Xstream Pictures.[1]

The film premiered at the 2006 Venice Film Festival and was a winner of the Golden Lion Award for Best Film.[2] It premiered at a handful of other film festivals and received a limited commercial release in the United States on January 18, 2008, in New York City.

Like The World, Jia's previous film, Still Life was accepted by Chinese authorities and was shown uncensored in both mainland China and abroad.

  1. ^ Elley, Derek (2006-09-08). "Still Life Review". Variety. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
  2. ^ "'Still Life' Takes Venice's Top Prize". CBS News. Associated Press. 2006-09-09. Retrieved 2008-01-19.