Long Day’s Journey Into Night - Bi Gan (Kaili City, Guizhou, China)

In this noir-inspired, dream-like film, a man sets out on a quest to find a missing woman from his past. Following various leads, he crosses paths with a series of characters, among them a prickly hairdresser played by the Taiwanese superstar Sylvia Chang. When the search leads him to a movie theater, he is plunged into a gravity-defying, labyrinthine cityscape that leaves him, and the viewer, breathless. In Mandarin, subtitled. 2018; 140 min. Co-sponsored by the Rutgers University Confucius Institute and the Rutgers University Cinema Studies Program!