Long Day's Journey Into The Night

Bi Gan had the festival circuit buzzing in 2015 with his indie debut Kaili Blues, a B&W road film with a 40-minute long take. For his daring sophomore feature, the emerging auteur goes several steps further with a star cast and a climactic 55-minute take shot. Bi stays in the southwestern Chinese county of Kaili for the stunning neo-noir about a lone man who returns to his hometown and searches for a mysterious past love. He wanders around town through fragmented memories of desire and danger, and then drifts into a mesmeric dream where a surreal journey of bold cinematic craftsmanship and abstractly layered storytelling awaits him and the audience.