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Film · 2018

Long`s day journey into night

Original titleDi qiu zui hou de ye wan

Directed by Gan Bi · starring Sylvia Chang, Tang Wei and Yongzhong Chen

  • 2 h 13 min
  • 12
  • Drama · Mystery · Romance
  • ChinaFrance
  • Released in the UK 26 December 2019
  • 7.1 AverageMovieNCo
  • 5.7 Users4 votes
  • 8.5 Critics6 reviews
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Synopsis

'Long's day journey into night' is a mix of dream and reality, past and present, noir film and fiction. A mix that became this film in a almost experimental film.

The plot is based on Luo Hogwu, who came back to Kaiki, his natal city, after the death of his father. There, he will try to find the woman he was so in love in when he was younger, and he will not be able to forget despite the pass of the time.

The history is divided and narrated in two different parts: the first is a collage where there is no time, a similar technic to the way Wong Kar Wai narrated. The second is a nocturnal dream (the title has sense now), screened into a beautiful sequence-shot of 55 minutes and shot amazingly in 3D.

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The essentials

Runtime
133 min2 hours and 13 minutes
Budget
$15mCG Cinéma
Rating
12Suitable for 12 years and over
How long is Long`s day journey into night?
2 hours and 13 minutes (133 minutes).
When was Long`s day journey into night released in the UK?
It was released in the UK on 26 December 2019.
Who directed Long`s day journey into night?
Gan Bi.
Who is in Long`s day journey into night?
It stars Sylvia Chang, Tang Wei, Yongzhong Chen and Feiyang Luo.
Where can I watch Long`s day journey into night?
In the UK it is available with a channel on Prime Video.
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Cast

Full cast (11)
Director
Gan Bi
Writers
Gan Bi
Producers
Han Han, Jianguo Ding, Charles Gillibert, Stanley Tong

Videos and trailers

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'Long's day journey into night' trailer with Spanish subtitles 1:3022 April 2019

Photos and posters

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Reviews

All 6 reviews
5.7 4 votes

What the critics say average 8.5 from 6 outlets

  • 10 IndiewireEric KohnMay The unexpected love child of Wong Kar-wai and Andrei Tarkovsky, ?Long Day?s Journey Into Night? transforms from a lush, slow-burn pastiche to an audacious filmmaking gamble while maintaining the… Read
  • 10 Los Angeles TimesJustin Chang "A sense of disorientation is a wholly appropriate response to a movie in which the past is both irretrievable and unshakable. But even at its most openly baffling, 'Long Day?s Journey Into Night'… Read
  • 6.0 Caimán Cuadernos de CineCarlos Losilla This critic can't avoid the feeling that Bi Gan, in some moments, seeks for the effect and not for the coherence, he falls in some aesthetical exhibitionism who hampers even the peaks of his work. Read

Soundtrack

All 2 songs
  1. Jasper Nighttheme song performed, Hebe Tien
  2. Huahua YuzhouKelly Chen, Mark Lui

Trivia

All 6 facts

  • An ambitious shooting

    One of the film's shots is in 3D. The sequence shot is 59 minutes long.

  • Nominations

    The film has been nominated in a lot of international festivals from independent circuit, such as Cannes Festival, International Palm Springs Festival, San Sebastian Festivals or Singapur International Festival.

  • The failure of the year

    Under the slogan of being 'the biggest event to start the year', a lot of Chinese people went to the film's release, the 31th of December, without knowing what they were going to see in reality. When they see the film, the critics were so strong that, the next day, tickets fell in a 96%.

  • I'm coming home

    Bi Gan shooted the film in his hometown, Kailii, situated in southwest China.

  • Night as a theme

    The Chinese theme, 'Last Evenings On Earth', is based on a tale of Roberto Bolaño, while the international title ('Long day's journey into night) is inspired of the work of Eugene O'Neill.

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