Long Day's Journey Into Night

“Swooningly beautiful… with a staggering 55-minute tracking shot that must be seen to be believed.” - Los Angeles Times.

To tie in with the release of Resurrection (playing at Watershed from Fri 20 March), we're screening Bi Gan's earlier film, Long Day's Journey Into Night. 

This dreamy, noir-tinged film from Chinese director Bi Gan chronicles the return of Luo Hongwu (Huang Jue) to the hometown he fled many years before, where he searches for a lost love (Tang Wei) who continues to haunt him.

As its English title suggests, this ravishing and rapturous fever dream of a film leads us on a nocturnal, labyrinthine voyage, one that both reveals and conceals a world of passion and intrigue...

Described as an intoxicating cinema experience, the second half of the film is an astonishing hour-long unbroken take as we travel with Luo through trance-inducing environments.

• There will be a Cinébabies screening (for parents/carers of babies under 12 months) of Long Day's Journey Into Night on today at 11:00.

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