Kaili Blues
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“It's like being in a dream”
Overview
Ahead of his latest work, Resurrection, join us in revisiting director Bi Gan’s spellbinding debut Kaili Blues. As Chen sets off from his small clinic in the rainy city of Kaili to fulfill his late mother’s wish and find his brother’s lost child, his older colleague requests he also find her former lover with only a photograph, a shirt, and a music cassette as a guide. As Chen rides about the lush countryside he comes across a mysterious town where past, present and future unite.
“Absolutely extraordinary. Blessed with a magic and mystery that is utterly unique”
“Astonishing first film about a geography of the soul. Delineated by time, trains and regret... Contains a 40 minute single shot that traces a map of Kaili with poetic prodigious filmic chops. Why? Cinema. Why? Life”
“Enthralling. Like Kafka by way of Apichatpong Weerasethakul”
“Dazzling originality. It’s hard to emerge from this waking dream of a film without feeling the shock of the new”
Why You Should See This Film
One of the most assured and inspiring debuts out there, Kaili Blues (originally titled Roadside Picnic after the Strugatsky Brothers novel that inspired Tarkovsky’s Stalker) announced Bi Gan as an exceptional talent up there with the masters of cinema. Filmed on a small budget with non-actors in his beautiful hometown of Kaili, he manages to pull extraordinary cinematic feats, both poetic and spectacular, at a mesmerising dreamy pace – of particular note is a wildly inventive 40-minute long take. It’s truly unlike anything you’ve ever seen.
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