Still Life (play) mood without technical creaking or over padding, deserves a better fate, and if, by careful writing, acting and producing I can do a little towards reinstating it in its rightful pride, I shall have achieved one of my more sentimental ambitions." "Still Life" was first produced in London (1936) and later presented in New York (1936–1937) and Canada (1938). It has enjoyed several major revivals and in 1945 was adapted for film under the title "Brief Encounter". Like all the other plays in the cycle, it originally starred Gertrude Lawrence and Coward himself. Six of the plays in "" were
Still Life (2006 film) contemporaries (and indeed unlike many of Jia's own films), "Still Life" was approved by the Chinese Film Bureau, SARFT, and was co-produced by the state-operated Shanghai Film Studio. Jia himself suggested that this support was due to the fact that "[t]he impact of the Three Gorges project is phenomenal. It’s not something the government can cover up." "Still Life" was therefore given a brief theatrical run in China (opening on the same day as the big-budget "Curse of the Golden Flower") and was also heavily bootlegged. Like many of Jia's works, "Still Life"<nowiki>'s pacing is stately but slow. Unlike his