Long Day's Journey into Night
- sombre
- slow-burn
- surreal
- bleak
- signature
Luo Hongwu returns to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years ago. He begins the search for the woman he loved and whom he has never been able to forget.
Our read · Long Day's Journey into Night (2018) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, surreal drama · mystery entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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