Long Day's Journey Into Night (DVD)

Long Day's Journey Into NightLabel: New Wave FilmsDescription: Oozing atmosphere with its noirish neon glow the film chronicles the return of Luo Hongwu (Huang Jue) 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 (Tang Wei) who continues to haunt him. Sculpting time and space through virtuosic technical feats Bi's 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 in 3D. A hushed hypnotic study of hazy memory lost time and flight and featuring the formidable Sylvia Chang as Wildcat's mother Long Day's Journey Into Night leads the viewer on a nocturnal labyrinthine voyage one that both reveals and conceals a world of passion and intrigue