Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018)

SWITCH. September 14, 2019

★ 8/10

‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’ is certain to test the patience of some audiences. It may be too esoteric, too inward, too meditative, perhaps appear too aimless. However, there’s was something about it that fascinated me, whether it was the protagonist’s myth-like search into his physical and metaphysical past (played with weary longing by Jue Huang) or the uncompromising and careful manner of Gan Bi’s storytelling. The film is much more than its famous set-piece, and at the same time all about that set-piece; a feat of filmmaking that is as impressive as it is dramaturgically vital, where dream and fantasy and longing flow together like a river, one that invites you to step in and float along with it, wherever it takes you. - Daniel Lammin Read Daniel's full article... https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-long-days-journey-into-night-art-and-technology-meet-…

Stephen Campbell January 12, 2020

★ 7/10

**_A luminous esoteric puzzle_** >_Les lieux que nous avons connus n'appartiennent pas qu'au monde de l'espace où nous les situons pour plus de facilité. Ils n'étaient qu'une mince tranche au milieu d'impressions contiguës qui formaient notre vie d'alors; le souvenir d'une certaine image n'est que le regret d'un certain instant; et les maisons, les routes, les avenues, sont fugitives, hélas! comme les années._ >[_The places that we have known belong now only to the little world of space on which we map them for our own convenience. None of them was ever more than a thin slice, held betwe__en the contiguous impressions that composed our life at that time; remembrance of a particular form is but regret for a particular moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fugitive, alas, as the years._] - Marcel Proust; _Du côté de chez Swann_ (1913) >_The Greek word for "return" i…

griggs79 June 23, 2025

★ 7/10

_Long Day’s Journey into Night_ is a slow, dreamlike film where memory blurs into story. Luo returns home, searching for a woman from his past—but really, he’s chasing who he was when he loved her. The plot is deliberately disorienting: places shift, objects repeat, time folds. The hour-long single take in the second half is stunning and surreal. It won’t be for everyone, but if you surrender to it, there’s something quietly moving underneath it all.