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Still Life
Why this pick
Like 24 City, it observes ordinary lives reshaped by vast Chinese redevelopment, using patient framing, quiet encounters, and a deeply humane sense of displacement.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2008 1h 52m CHN
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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A Touch of Sin
Why this pick
It retains Jia’s precise eye for inequality and rapid transformation, but channels the social pressures surrounding everyday Chinese lives into a more sharply tense, episodic form.
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The Day I Became a Woman
Why this pick
Its spare, episodic portraits of women at social thresholds share 24 City’s restrained emotional power and ability to let individual lives illuminate larger historical structures.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Chen Jianbin
Song Wei-Dong
Joan Chen
Xiao Hua