Bi has a gift gift for bewitching enigmas and virtuoso technique, and he is poised to become one of the most important Chinese filmmakers of the new millennium.

| Apr 15, 2019

If there is one single factor that can somehow explain the pleasure afforded by Bi Gan's directorial debut Kaili Blues, it would be its undisguised, unflinching audacity.

| Aug 25, 2018

The most elusive and the most memorable new movie that I've seen in quite some time.

| Mar 28, 2017

Bi Gan directed this boldly original debut feature.

| Aug 11, 2016

Bi's singular vision bears comparison to those of other geniuses such as Tarkovsky, Sokurov, David Lynch, Luis Buuel and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 4, 2016

For adventurous moviegoers, "Kaili Blues," which could draw comparisons to the early work of Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Zhangke Jia is an interesting and challenging film, worth taking a flier.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 22, 2016

A melancholy tale of loss and regret that marks a singular feature debut for the Chinese director Bi Gan.

| Jun 2, 2016

Viewers will remember it more for its heightened sense of artifice, for the strange smoothness of the camera's transitions on and off vehicles and into and out of various spaces.

| May 25, 2016

As lovely as the movie is to look at (and the final scene is exceptionally wonderful), it's too oblique to concentrate its energies and sharpen its focus.

| May 19, 2016

"Kaili Blues" has the kitchen-sink feel of a new director eager to try every art-film technique in the book, but the film's beauty and inventiveness are riveting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 19, 2016

Bi Gan's debut feature Kaili Blues ducks and doubles back like a fugitive trying to lose a tail, finding itself in stranger and stranger places.

| Original Score: B+ | May 19, 2016

Like Kafka by way of Apichatpong Weerasethakul ...

| May 18, 2016

A doctor travels to his hometown to rescue his nephew, in the process confronting his traumatic past, in Chinese director Bi Gan's aesthetically remarkable debut.

| May 16, 2016

Yet the voice resonating behind these familiar motifs is one of such dazzling originality, it's hard to emerge from this waking dream of a film without feeling the shock of the new.

| May 3, 2016