Long Dayʼs Journey Into Night

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Director:Gan Bi
Cast:Sylvia Chang, Yongzhong Chen, Jue Huang, Hong-Chi Lee
Premiere:30. May 2019
Length:115 minutes
Genre:Drama, Mystery

Long Dayʼs Journey Into Night

Di qiu zui hou de ye wan; Gan Bi, 2018, versions: OR,CS,ES, languages: zho

Director: Gan Bi • Scenario: Gan Bi • Cast: Sylvia Chang, Yongzhong Chen, Jue Huang, Hong-Chi Lee, Wei Tang

The hypnotic romanticising neo noir creation of Gan Bi, the most gifted of the contemporary Chinese film-makers, is a magical meditation on space and time, an enigmatic cinematic poem about loss and suffering, a dream woven from unreliable memories, melancholically blurred by the present and the past, which might not even have been. The mesmerising rhythm and the doleful images of the film about a man seeking his long-lost love, evokes the more sombre and more abstracts early movies of Wong Kar-Wai, as well as Andrey Tarkovsky’s mature pieces. Following the hero as he wanders the dreamlike ruins of the provincial town of Kaili in southwest China, the feature culminates in an almost hour-long uninterrupted revelatory take in 3D. (the whole film will be presented in 2D version)

Length: 115 min

Year: 2018
Local premiere date: 30. May 2019

Country of origin:

  • China

Language version:

OR - Original version (chinese)
CS - Czech subtitles
ES - English subtitles

Director: Gan Bi • Scenario: Gan Bi • Cast: Sylvia Chang, Yongzhong Chen, Jue Huang, Hong-Chi Lee, Wei Tang

The hypnotic romanticising neo noir creation of Gan Bi, the most gifted of the contemporary Chinese film-makers, is a magical meditation on space and time, an enigmatic cinematic poem about loss and suffering, a dream woven from unreliable memories, melancholically blurred by the present and the past, which might not even have been. The mesmerising rhythm and the doleful images of the film about a man seeking his long-lost love, evokes the more sombre and more abstracts early movies of Wong Kar-Wai, as well as Andrey Tarkovsky’s mature pieces. Following the hero as he wanders the dreamlike ruins of the provincial town of Kaili in southwest China, the feature culminates in an almost hour-long uninterrupted revelatory take in 3D. (the whole film will be presented in 2D version)

Year: 2018
Local premiere date: 30. May 2019

Country of origin:

  • China

Language version:

OR - Original version (chinese)
CS - Czech subtitles
ES - English subtitles