Oozing atmosphere with its noirish neon glow, the film chronicles the return of Luo Hongwu (<b>Huang Jue</b>) to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years before. Back for his father's funeral, Luo recalls the death of an old friend, Wildcat, and searches for lost love Wan Qiwen (<b>Tang Wei</b>), who continues to haunt him.
Sculpting time and space through virtuosic technical feats, <b>Bi Gan's</b> film yields successive visual and aural delights. With talismanic cues and motifs of uncanny doubling, the film is bisected — its first half recast in the second through a vertiginous, trance-inducing, hour-long single take. A hushed, hypnotic study of hazy memory, lost time, and flight — and featuring the formidable <b>Sylvia Chang</b> as Wildcat's mother - <I>Long Day's Journey Into Night,</I> leads the viewer on a nocturnal, labyrinthine voyage, one that both reveals and conceals a world of passion and intrigue.
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In Mandarin with English subtitles.DramaPT2H18M122026-05-17