LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, Bi Gan’s new noir-tinged epic with 59m, 3-D single take shot opens in LA on Friday, April 19 @ The Landmark
As proven by his knockout debut, KAILI BLUES, Bi Gan is preoccupied with film’s potential to both materialize mental space and convey physical sensation. His cinematic ambitions are further crystallized, to say the least, in LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, a noir-tinged film about a solitary man (Huang Jue) haunted by loss and regret, told in two parts: the first an achronological mosaic, the second a nocturnal dream. Again centering around his native province of Guizhou in southwest China, the director has created a film like nothing you’ve seen before, especially in the now extended from Cannes 59-minute-long, gravity-defying 3D sequence shot, which plunges its protagonist-and us-through a labyrinthine cityscape.
**Official Selection – Un Certain Regard – Cannes Film Festival 2018**
**Official Selection – Toronto International Film Festival 2018**
**Official Selection – New York Film Festival 2018**
**Winner – 2018 Golden Horse Awards for Best Cinematography, Score, and Sound Effects**
“Swooningly beautiful…with a staggering 3-D tracking shot that must be seen to be believed. The most magical piece of cinema I’ve seen in Cannes in many a year.” – Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
“Like nothing you’ve seen before. Like many great filmmakers—from Alain Resnais and Andrei Tarkovsky to David Lynch and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, all of whom he recalls to varying degrees— Bi seems to believe that new realms of cinema are possible in making the immaterial material.”
– Dennis Lim, Film Comment
“It’s impossible to describe… and even more impossible to forget.”
– Emily Yoshida, Vulture
“Mesmerizing. An immersive, jaw-dropping plunge into melancholy and movie magic. This is bold and rare filmmaking.”
– Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter
“Staggering. A remarkable new kind of filmmaking experience.”
– Eric Kohn, Indiewire
