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A doctor travels the countryside, searching for his nephew that apperently is in a small Chinese city not too far away. Along the way he meets old friends and he get's a few new friends as well.
This film is not about the plot, it's about the movement, the trip itself. The emotions created by the slowly panning shots, the mashing colors of mostly blue and green and all the things to observe. I feel a vibe of Taiwan, Thailand or something other than China, but it's sat in South China so that should explain it.
It's like a mild Tarkovsky or more accuratly Apichatpong Weerasethakul at his best. The constantly moving filming tend to freeze at, or turn into a cut, of something that will catch you're eyes. Something interesting, more interesting than the pretty heavy digestable dialogues. The words rearly matter in this visual experience, though.
After an hour or so in, things change. We get a 40 minutes uncut shot from a Canon 5D - probably attached to a helmet or something. It's a neat effect and it's another off-drift and a turn that makes it even more oberverable. Clever and impressively long!
Gan Bi delivers a solid debut. I can't believe it's his first, is clearly a man to look out for.
I don't know how this got off the radar, it should be on a lot of lists around the web not to mention places to be premiered around the world.
A demanding but stunning film where time and happenings comes last. Not for everyone, and not a sure shot everyday. If you are in the mood for a meditative film that can take you away for a headtrip, consider this one.
8.5 out of 10 blue shoes.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/17/23
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Rated 5/5 Stars •
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/16/23
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Back in 1989, as newborn baby Gan Bi was breathing in peaceful sleep, all nine Muses gathered around him, touched their pointers on his rising chest and in an exhale, blessed him with a seed of an idea.
The seed grew inside him. Alongside him. All around him.
And it kept growing. And growing. Until it took over, in height, in stature, in demand. Gan, much like The Little Prince and his rose, thought it his duty and honour to take care of his friend, to love and nurture it to full bloom. And when that time came, when the idea had blossomed to perfect ripeness, Gan dared to immortalise its beauty using the most encompassing medium to its fullest.
Colours, sound and echoing silence, shadows, poetry and violence, the rough and the velvety, time, love, devotion, laughter, hope and sorrow -- everything, all of it comes together like a Clotho-weaved veil of mystique, heavy with droplets of ambition that weigh it dangerously with ageless wrinkles without ever breaking its threads.
Can you tell I'm still engulfed in this feature's ever-folding, dreamscape palpitations?
In awe, this is the most human movie I have watched, possibly ever.
I am caged.
And here I want to stay.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/08/23
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Bi presents Kaili in all its naturalness, the sounds, the smell of the city, even the temperature of the air seems to become real, emanating out of the screen. This is a wonderful, melancholic piece. How people who the world would not even care to remember, live their lives and go on living, keeping their worries silently for themselves and enjoying the banal of the everyday.
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
02/19/23
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Film language hasn`t been explored like this in a while.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/01/23
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deserve to be seen twice
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/26/23
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