This film completely drew me in. The pacing is slow, almost meditative, but it never lost me it kept pulling me forward, making me curious about what was coming next. It felt like stepping into a labyrinth that Bi Gan carefully built, and I loved wandering through it.
What really struck me is the way the film treats dreams. They work almost like memories and in a way, like cinema itself. Sometimes an image I’d seen earlier would suddenly resurface in a different scene, or appear on a screen within the film.
It didn’t feel like piecing together a puzzle to find answers. Instead, it felt like holding onto fragments of memory that linger the way some images stay with you even long after they’ve passed, as if the film itself carries its own memories.
Visually it’s stunning the cinematography, the production design, the way shadows and compositions are used. Each section of the film has its own tone and atmosphere; at times it felt like I was drifting between different films, only to realize they’re all part of the same one.
This is the first Bi Gan film I’ve seen, and it instantly made me want to explore his earlier work.
This film completely drew me in. The pacing is slow, almost meditative, but it never lost me it kept pulling me forward, making me curious about what was coming next. It felt like stepping into a labyrinth that Bi Gan carefully built, and I loved wandering through it.
What really struck me is the way the film treats dreams. They work almost like memories and in a way, like cinema itself. Sometimes an image I’d seen earlier would suddenly resurface in a different scene, or appear on a screen within the film.
It didn’t feel like piecing together a puzzle to find answers. Instead, it felt like holding onto fragments of memory that linger the way some images stay with you even long after they’ve passed, as if the film itself carries its own memories.
Visually it’s stunning the cinematography, the production design, the way shadows and compositions are used. Each section of the film has its own tone and atmosphere; at times it felt like I was drifting between different films, only to realize they’re all part of the same one.
This is the first Bi Gan film I’ve seen, and it instantly made me want to explore his earlier work.
