Long Day's Journey into Night (2018)

Bi Gan's Long Day's Journey into Night (地球最後的夜晚) is visually very cool. The 59-minute long take that ends the movie is astounding, and even the first 75 minutes of the film are gorgeously shot, with intriguing use of mirrors and focus, so that one isn't always sure in which direction one is seeing. It's just that all of this isn't very interesting. I liked the protagonist, but everything in the film feels soporific and unnecessarily slow. It's hard to get excited about the character's journey here. He makes a lot of decisions that felt to me like they made no sense at all, and so I really couldn't get that interested in what was going on. There's a very strange scene in a mineshaft with a small boy at the beginning of the final hour that I enjoyed a lot, but other than that I was rather bored.