Screening

About Long Day’s Journey into Night 3D

Rating:

Not rated Not rated

Year Released:

2019

Format:

3D 2K DCP

Genres:

Drama

Metadata:

Directed by Bi Gan

Director Bi Gan follows up his knockout debut, Kaili Blues, with this noir-tinged stunner about a lost soul (Jue Huang) on a quest to find a missing woman from his past (Wei Tang, Lust, Caution). Following leads across Guizhou province, he crosses paths with a series of colorful characters, among them a prickly hairdresser played by Taiwanese superstar Sylvia Chang. When the search leads him to a dingy movie theater, the film launches into an hour-long, gravity-defying 3D sequence shot in a single take that plunges its protagonist—and us—into a labyrinthine cityscape. China’s biggest arthouse hit of all time, the film took in more than $40 million in its opening weekend at the domestic box office. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Contains mature content, including violence and sexual situations.