Kaili sirge born 1983, estonian crosscountry skier. Ritu, a schizophrenic is put through a heart wrenching ordeal to prove the existence of her love. An audacious, richly imagined feature debut that has collected prizes around the world, kaili blues heralds the arrival of a major new filmmaker. A stunning debut from chinese director bi gan, kaili blues is an audacious, mesmerizing work that announces the arrival of a major new filmmaker. Kaili blues, a dreamy trek with otherworldly beauty. The 15 most unique movies of all time page 2 taste of.
But she questions the authenticity of the world we live in and call real. His partner in the clinic, a lonely old lady, asks him to also find her former lover. Jackpot a comedy short film saturday, december 06, 2014. Were lulled into an aquatic setting of a provincial mainland set, and shot on location in the kaili, and zhenyuan province, where chen shen runs a small medical practice with an elder practitioner named guanglin. In many of his songs, the music is very smooth sounding, but with his ominous and soft voice, combined with the lyrics itself, it is very misleading as to what he is talking about. Poetic kaili blues is a beautiful film about a chinese. The highly anticipated new film by bi gan who streaked on to the scene like a comet with kaili blues 2015 seeks to further heighten that films attempt at a cinematic adventure. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the enter key is pressed. Tarr, wong kar wai, and a few other modern masters have so reinvented film. Since a sizable portion of the population is using social distancing for selfbettermentif social media brags can be believedthen this feels like an ideal time for a deep dive into the companys vaults through their video on demand channel, ifc films unlimited. This record could indisputably be considered one to be all about sex but in a very abstract sense.
May 19, 2016 kaili blues has the kitchensink feel of a new director eager to try every artfilm technique in the book, but the films beauty and inventiveness are riveting. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title kaili. Blue jay is a romantic drama film directed by alex lehmann in his fictional feature debut, from a screenplay by mark duplass. Kaili blues 2016 03232016 fr mystery, drama 1h 53m user score.
Marginal geographies oklahoma city museum of art okcmoa. Il a perdu sa femme lorsquil etait en prison pour avoir servi dans les triades. In 20 alone, chinas share of the worlds extreme poor fell an astonishing 5 percentage points, from to 8 percent. To coincide with the exhibition celestial empire at the national library of australia, the australian centre on china in the world anu presents a selection of rarely seen photographs of 1930s china taken by stanley o. Kaili blues 2015, his first narrative feature film, screened at locarno film festival 2015, winning the best emerging director award and the. Blue film is a very intimate album, but very raunchy as well. For an enhanced browsing experience, get the imdb app on your smartphone or tablet. Poetic kaili blues is a beautiful film about a chinese doctor. Chen, a preoccupied doctor working in a small clinic in the raindrenched city of kaili, decides to fulfill his late mothers wish and sets off on a journey to look for his brothers abandoned child. It looks like we dont have any akas for this title yet.
Kaili blues is also a road movie, and the various legs of chens. Kaili blues 2016 0323 2016 fr mystery, drama 1h 53m user score. Born in kaili in china in 1989, bi gan directed his first short, diamond sutra, in 2012 which earned him the special mention award in the asian new force category at the ifva festival in hong kong. The screenings i attended gave rise to audienceecstasy in both situations. The film had its world premiere at the toronto international film festival on september 12, 2016. Ranked among film comments best undistributed films of 2015, bi gans remarkable arthouse debut swept up locarnos best new director prize, its screening in the festival hailed as one of the most assured directorial debuts of the decade by both film comment and cinemascope. In a small clinic in the raindrenched city of kaili, two preoccupied doctors. Kaili blues bi gans arthouse gem blends memories and time south china morning. Festival des 3 continents, for his first fulllength motion picture, kaili blues. Kaili blues is a genuine arthouse film, confusing to follow but visually captivating and a great testament to bi gans directorial abilities. In the subtropical province of guizhou, chen sheng embarks on a journey.
Kaili blues a new language for chinese film kaili blues, an eccentric, remarkably assured first feature by the young chinese director bi gan, is both the most elusive and the most memorable new movie that ive seen in quite some. Film finances supplies completion bonds to film, television, digital, and interactive productions. Kaili blues has the kitchensink feel of a new director eager to try every artfilm technique in the book, but the films beauty and inventiveness are riveting. Kaili blues should be seen at least two times, and discussed by film students in every international serious film school, and by audiences who are passionate about cinema in all countries within and outside china. Time again for our annual international critics poll of the years top movies. Through a remarkable arsenal of stylistic techniques, the film develops into a oneofakind road movie, at once magical and materialist, traversing both space and time. Playing with apichatpong weerasethakuls mysterious object at noon. And here, in the films second half, bi and wang execute an audacious traveling. Kaili blues a new language for chinese film kaili blues, an eccentric, remarkably assured first feature by the young chinese director bi gan, is both the most elusive and the most memorable new movie that ive seen in quite some timeelusive and memorable being central to bis ambitions. Apr, 2016 bi gan on long days journey into night and pushing the boundaries of 3d nyff56 duration. In the subtropical province of guizhou, chen sheng embarks on a journey to find his nephew. Not rated 1h 53min drama, mystery 15 july 2016 china lu bian ye. The feature debut of the writer and director bi gan, kaili blues finds chen chen yongzhong, a physician, working at a shabby medical clinic in kaili, a city in china. If thats an elliptical statement, it befits a film thats baffling as a whole though.
Kaili blues features a 41minute tracking shot that follows its characters on. Bi gans debut feature kaili blues ducks and doubles back like a fugitive trying to lose a tail, finding itself in stranger and stranger places. After finishing the rough cut, i asked someone to show it to lim. The chinese name of this film lu bian ye can originated from strugatsky brothers roadside picnic which was rearranged into stalker by andrei tarkovsky. Kaili blues is a magnificent contrast of show and tell as carefully delineated compositions into a freewheeling travelogue. Chen sheng chen yongzhong, the directors uncle, a reformed gangster who now owns a smalltown medical clinic in chinas misty guizhou province, sets off to adopt his. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point. Kaili blues, a dreamy trek with otherworldly beauty the. The film vaulted the young director into the international film festival circuit. No films possess the entrancing emptiness of this particular work. The two features that the 29yearold chinese director bi gan has completed in.
Nevertheless, it was an honor to speak briefly with the 29yearold auteuralbeit over the phone, and with the help of an interpreterabout how his life has changed in the wake of. Films directed by women make up the majority of the top five, alongside barry jenkins. This remarkable visual achievement, which feels as singular and alien as the films of the great apichatpong weerasethakul, was shot in the mining village kaili, the directors birthplace, and incorporates poetry hes been writing since he was a teenager. Bi gan, a chinese young director and poet, was born in kaili, guizhou in 1989. Kaili blues, a rebut film directed by gan bi who hadnt been heard before by most film critics or audience. Bi gan on long days journey into night and pushing the boundaries of 3d nyff56 duration. After i bahhumbugged 2014 and declared 2015 a dud for prestige films, 2016 for all the suffering and heartbreak it hath wrought outside the cinema brought forth so many great films that a. Born in kaili, guizhou province, in 1989, bi gan began his film career with kaili. The company was founded in 1950 and has offices in usa, uk, australia, canada, south africa, scandinavia, germany and china. If youre looking for something that moves along at more than a crawl, or has a comprehensible, linear storyline, youll want to kick in your tv screen well before this is over. The achievement of kaili blues can be measured against a higher profile film from. This is kaili blues trailerwith english subtitles by heaven pictures on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
The film had its world premiere at the toronto international film festival on september 12, 2016 the film was released on october 7, 2016, in a limited release prior to being released through video on demand on october 11, 2016. Apr 12, 2019 t he 20th anniversary of ifc films just so happens to coincide with many of us suddenly having a lot more time on our hands. May 20, 2016 im not eager to see kaili blues a second time. E ven before the hourlong take that makes up its second half, bi gans shapeshifting noir epic long days journey into night displays the kind of filmmaking prowess thats better seen than talked about.
Historically unprecedented growth over the course of a single year, china, by its own measure, lifted nearly 40 million people out of poverty. Kotha ammai kotha abbai thursday, january 01, 2015. Kaili blues a doctor travels to his hometown to rescue his nephew, in the process confronting his traumatic past, in chinese director bi gans aesthetically remarkable debut. Bi gans film is a soulful depiction of chinas increasingly rapid pace of. This is one of the most underappreciated films of recent years. Gregory, printed in largeformat for the first time, from the original negatives now in the nla collection. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Founded in 2012, the silk road international film festival sriff is fast becoming an international acclaimed film festival which is held annually in dublin, ireland. Sriff celebrates world cinema where we discover new films and voices from around the world.
If youre looking for something that moves along at more than a crawl, or has a comprehensible, linear storyline, youll want to. These directors have reshaped film into being once again think silent films a visual medium. Kaili blues reveals a new approach for art films global times. And here, in the film s second half, bi and wang execute an audacious traveling. It has a pencil sketch of a plot, with the makings of a subtropical noir. Luo, returning to his hometown of kaili in chinas guizhou province for his fathers funeral, walks through the. Just click the edit page button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the akas submission guide. Weiwei soon vanishes, and chen sets out to find him, embarking on a mystical quest that takes him to the riverside city of kaili and the town of dang mai. Kaili blues bi gans arthouse gem blends memories and time. In kaili blues gan offers up an increasingly dreamlike elegy for. Bi gans 2nd film, long days journey into night, is just as brilliant and recalls some of the first film. Festival and taiwans golden horse awardsis an audacious work that announces a major. This year we asked 163 critics and curators to name their five best films of the year and the results are a small triumph for diversity not to mention a lot of treats still to come to uk cinemas over the next few months.
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