In a way, the premise is just the antechamber that one has to see before entering the main room.

| Dec 14, 2023

Episode 44: Ash Is Purest White / Long Day's Journey into Night / An Elephant Sitting Still

| Original Score: 50/100 | Oct 4, 2021

Long Day's journey into Night is Tarkovski's The Mirror with a noir twist: the resolution of the crime is focused in the interior of a detective that goes on unlocking and illuminating corners of his own psychical interiority [Full review in spanish]

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Aug 19, 2020

...an atmospheric, tropical film noir...

| Aug 14, 2020

It's a sensory, atmospheric, almost subjective experience of dreams, love and the most intrinsic fears. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 29, 2020

The darkness in Long Day's Journey into Night is comforting, seductive and beautiful, never ominous or threatening.

| Jul 17, 2020

Savor it. Dive into its wrinkles and swim in its sulci. Aside from some pacing issues, it's a half-remembered dream to behold.

| Jan 17, 2020

Long Day's Journey into Night is a risky film to launch anywhere, being slow in its exposition and resistant to easy interpretation. Approach with caution but, if in doubt, approach it anyway.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 31, 2019

Bi [Gan] creates a sense of atmosphere that's superbly engulfing, filling scenes with subtle touches that add intrigue to a narrative that has very little pace.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 30, 2019

[F]ans of directors Alain Resnais, David Lynch, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Nicolas Roeg, and Wong Kar-wai will likely find this art-house stunner an enrapturing experience.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 30, 2019

A wonderfully eerie watch.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 29, 2019

It's a vanishingly rare occurrence to see something on screen and be unable to wrap your head around how it was achieved. But in Long Day's Journey Into Night... some kind of sorcery is at work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2019

A slow, beautifully shot, film noir mystery, Long Day's Journey into Night propels us into a transcendental state, where we don't really know what's real and what's imagination.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 27, 2019

Its final, hour-long single take tracking shot is not only a marvel of technical ingenuity, it's like an out-of-body experience that shatters the boundaries of what cinema can do.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 27, 2019

There are touches of Kafka, also of Tarkovsky, to this dream-like and beguilingly non-literal film that concludes with an audacious 3D sequence that explains everything, and nothing.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 26, 2019

This is immersive cinema, designed to be experienced rather than just watched.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 23, 2019

There is such artistry and audacity in this new film from 30-year-old Chinese director Bi Gan.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 20, 2019

Little of this adds up, unless you like films in which two plus two equals nine.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 18, 2019

If one could go past the lack of coherence in the narrative and instead focus on its aesthetics, however, he would definitely enjoy a truly artful movie.

| Dec 2, 2019

The camera movement feels purposeful and imbued with meaning, even when it's not obviously apparent. Credit has to go to Huang Jue, who anchors the film in real emotions of love and loss, doing some great acting with merely body movement alone.

| Oct 30, 2019