If you loved Still Life, try Platform
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Jia Zhangke, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Still Life, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Platform is
Famine meets Waiting for Godot in a freezing Sichuan theater. A 1970s troupe survives on thin rehearsal rations while state parades eat the village’s lunch. The troupe’s post-revolution party trick? A human stack whose collapse decides who eats next. Jia Zhangke’s quarter-century time capsule rides on a single communal meal the actors keep dropping.
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