Long Day's Journey Into Night

...an atmospheric, tropical film noir...

It's a vanishingly rare occurrence to see something on screen and be unable to wrap your head around how it was achieved. But in Long Day's Journey Into Night... some kind of sorcery is at work.

There is such artistry and audacity in this new film from 30-year-old Chinese director Bi Gan.

Little of this adds up, unless you like films in which two plus two equals nine.

It's so evocative and impressionistic... Hypnotically watchable.

You may carry the echoes of this indefinable masterpiece long after you've awakened from it.

In a way, the premise is just the antechamber that one has to see before entering the main room.

Episode 44: Ash Is Purest White / Long Day's Journey into Night / An Elephant Sitting Still

Long Day's journey into Night is Tarkovski's The Mirror with a noir twist: the resolution of the crime is focused in the interior of a detective that goes on unlocking and illuminating corners of his own psychical interiority [Full review in spanish]

It's a sensory, atmospheric, almost subjective experience of dreams, love and the most intrinsic fears. [Full review in Spanish]