Still Life
Tue 17 Jun 2008 8pm
Cert PG, 109 mins Dir: Jia Zhange China 2006
Winner of the 2006 Venice Film Festival, Still Life is the vivid and absorbing tale of two individuals struggling to keep up with the dizzying pace of change in 21st century China.
Set against the spectacular landscape of the Three Gorges region along the Yangtze River, Still Life intertwines two stories of people searching for their missing partners. Their respective quests bring them to Fengjie, a town with a two thousand year history, currently undergoing demolition and soon to disappear forever in the flooding caused by the controversial Three Gorges Dam. A revelatory, thought-provoking portrait of people adrift in a world they no longer recognise, Still Life also reveals their energy, resilience and ability to reach new understandings. In Mandarin with English subtitles.
£7 (£5.50 Members)