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The Sugar Curtain (2006)
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"One of the stiller moments in Jia Zhang Ke's Still Life By Vadim Rizov Unless something miraculous happens, Still Life will be Tribeca's designated masterpiece and, with any justice, competition winner. Not that it'll really benefit at this late date; even after winning the Golden Lion at Venice and screening at a plethora of other festivals, Still Life still has no American distributor. Surprising, given that Still Life is a lean 108 minutes and classifies as relatively accessibly for Jia Zhang Ke, whose previous films have such inviting IMDB genre tags as "ennui" and "disenchantment." A tip: The characters are not the story. Han Sanming (as a miner named Han Sanming) arrives in Fengjie after having been gone for 16 years to find his ex-wife, only to learn that the entire area has been flooded as part of China's massive Three Gorges hydroelectric program (ongoing since 1993, to be complete by 2009, and forcing the relocation of more than 1.2 million people in t ... "
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