LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT Trailer

Opens April 19! Tickets on sale to Members April 10, and April 11 for the public. 3D glasses will be provided for this screening. Oozing atmosphere with its noirish neon glow, the film chronicles the return of Luo Hongwu (Huang Jue) to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years before. Back for his father’s funeral, Luo recalls the death of an old friend, Wild Cat, and searches for lost love Wan Qiwen (Tang Wei), who continues to haunt him. Sculpting in time and space through virtuosic technical feats, Bi’s film yields successive visual and aural delights. With talismanic cues and motifs of uncanny doubling, the film is bisected — its first half recast through a vertiginous, trance-inducing, hour-long single take in 3D. A hushed, hypnotic study of hazy memory, lost time, and flight — and featuring the formidable Sylvia Chang as Wild Cat’s mother — Long Day’s Journey Into Night leads the viewer on a nocturnal, labyrinthine voyage, one that both reveals and concea
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