An Upscale Leap Forward That Leaves Many Behind
di Manohla Dargis The New York Times
One of the most enigmatic moments in “Still Life,” a movie about some of the violent convulsions rocking contemporary China, occurs when a building shudders into the air like a space shuttle. The image is never explained on screen and seems at odds with the movie’s overriding realism, which nonetheless also makes room for what looks like a U.F.O. Yet these alien images make sense, given the dislocating, otherworldly strangeness of Chinese existence charted by the filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke in “Still Life” and elsewhere. [...]
di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (5272 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 5 giugno 2009
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