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Long Day's Journey Into Night

Di qiu zui hou de ye wan (Long Day's Journey Into Night)

2018

Bi Gan

Tang Wei, Sylvia Chang, Vivien Li, Huang Jue ...

6.6

2,193

Drama. Mystery A man went back to Guizhou, found the tracks of a mysterious woman. He recalls the summer he spent with her twenty years ago.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[It] pulls you in through the sheer immersive force of its filmmaking (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"Very often, and particularly in its second half, watching it feels like dreaming with your eyes open."	POS
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"A densely layered and slowly mesmerizing cinematic feat (...) What makes this 50-plus minute sequence-shot here so special is (...) a deeply poetic style that recalls both Wong Kar-Wai and Andrei Tarkovsky"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"A remarkable new kind of filmmaking experience. (...) A delicious surprise by providing a unique alternative — moving images that transform the real world into a higher plane of awareness"	POS
United States	Maggie Lee Variety	"A virtuoso long take (...) The film itself comes up short in substance"	NEU
United States	Simon Abrams rogerebert.com	"Time moves differently in 'Long Day's Journey Into Night', a sensuous, dream-like Chinese drama (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jordan Ruimy The Playlist	"A masterfully mysterious effort (...) A game-changer of the highest order (...) Bi Gan creates unforgettably feverish phantasmagoricalism"	POS
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"The director makes gritty and imaginative use of locations (...) A beautiful, smoulderingly romantic film"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A hallucinatory experience whose sinuous camera movements take you on a long journey into memory and fear and a night full of dreams (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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