Next online film (January 28): Still Life (2006)

[Michael L Ray]

LTATM discussions at the Del Mar Theater are indefinitely suspended. Please join us online via Zoom video conferencing software (details below) where this week we'll discuss a film streaming on Kanopy (anyone with a library card can join Kanopy for free and stream six to twelve movies a month). 

On Wednesday, January 28, at 7pm we will discuss the Mandarin/Drama - Still Life (2006). Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2006, Still Life is a unique hybrid of documentary and fiction. Against the backdrop of the mammoth Three Gorges Dam engineering project in the declining city of Fengjie, a poor mine worker from Shanxi, Sanming, arrives in the dilapidated town in the hope of finding his unknown daughter and his ex-wife, Missy Ma, who left him nearly 16 years ago. In the meantime, a nurse from Taiyuan, Shen Hong, comes to Fengjie in search of her husband who's been missing for almost two years. Though Shen and Sanming are two perfect strangers, their parallel quests for their beloved missing ones signify the urgency to retrieve what lies hidden in the past, as humanity is dwarfed by an ever-changing landscape which threatens to bury one's memories deep under water. 91% on Rotten Tomatoes:

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/still_life_2008

Attendees will need to download and install Zoom Client for Meetings (for laptops and desktops) or Zoom Mobile App (for smartphones). It's free, easy to use, and available here: https://zoom.us/download

To join, click on this link:

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Or you can join by starting your Zoom app and entering the following Meeting ID and Passcode:

Meeting ID for 1/28: 382 215 7479

Passcode for 1/28: 665576

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