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Zhand Ke Jia's, "Still Life," has a quiet power, an impact,

Posted by tinear on July 19, 2009 at 08:07:23:
and a complex vision which make most films seem elemental.
"The Platform,", "Unknown Pleasures," and "The World," his earlier films, center on young people and their struggles to adapt to political pressures and systems undergoing violent change and which threaten to destroy any individual seen as a threat.
"Still Life," however, centers on the story of a middle-aged man who, for many years, toiled in the dangerous mines of Northern China, all the while mourning the loss of the woman who one day left him, taking his beloved daughter. Finally, after all these years, he goes in search of her, traveling to an area which is being flooded in the largest public works project in Chinese history. The pain of his journey, his dislocation framed by that of the people in this region of drastic transition, and the revolutionary and disturbing changes happening throughout the society carefully are woven into the story of a man no less taciturn, nor heroic, than Leone's, "man with no name."