Still Life (2006 film)

Still Life Chinese pinyin Snxi horn literally Good people of the Three Gorges is a 2006 Chinese film directed by Jia Zhangke. Shot in the old village of Fengjie, a small town on the Yangtze River which is 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 coproduction between the Shanghai Film Studio and Xstream Pictures.

Still Life is set in Fengjie, a city upstream of the massive Three Gorges Dam. Now marked for flooding, the city undergoes a process of selfdeconstruction. Into this dying town comes Han Sanming, a coalminer from the province of Shanxi who has returned in search of a wife who ran away sixteen years ago. Upon arriving, he asks a local motorcyclist to drive him to his former address on Granite Street. The driver takes him to the river bank, revealing that his entire neighborhood has been flooded since the building of the dam. After a failed attempt to obtain his wifes information from the local municipal office, Han Sanming settles into a local hotel. Sanmings next stop is a rickety boat owned by his wifes elder brother. The brother informs Sanming that his wife and daughter the real reason for his return work downriver in Yichang but that if he remains in the city, they will eventually return.Sanming then befriends a local teen, Brother Mark, who helps him get a job with his demolition crew. Together, the two spend their days tearing down buildings. ........

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