Long Day's Journey Into Night

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT is a noirish stunner about a lost soul (Huang Jue) on a quest to find a missing woman from his past. (Tang Wei). Following leads across Guizhou province, the man crosses paths with a series of colorful characters, among them a prickly hairdresser played by Taiwanese superstar Sylvia Chang. When the search to a dingy movie theater, the film launches into an hour long, gravity defying sequence shot that plunges its protagonist, and us, into a dreamlike, labyrinthine cityscape. A monumental accomplishment from director Bi Gan (KAILI BLUES), it is China's biggest arthouse hit of all time, and has already become a modern cinematic landmark.