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Kaili Blues
Directed by
Bi Gan
Not Rated
2016
1h 53m
Mystery
,
Drama
7.3
97%
84%
7.1
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While travelling the countryside to locate his nephew, a small town doctor finds himself interacting with people from his past and future.
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Cast of Kaili Blues
Chen Yongzhong
Chen Sheng
Daqing Zhao
Older Doctor
Feiyang Luo
Young Weiwei
Lixun Xie
Crazy Face
Shuai Zeng
Pisshead
Qin Guangqian
Huang San
Shixue Yu
Teenage Weiwei
Guo Yue
Yangyang
Linyan Liu
Zhang Xi
Zhuohua Yang
Monk
Yang Jiangchuan
Band Member
Ou Mengjun
Band Member
Wu Deshui
Band Member
Song Dacheng
Band Member
Liao Dongkai
Band Member
Bi Gan
Director / Writer
Ding Jianguo
Executive Producer
Zhaoyu Li
Producer
Shan Zuolong
Producer
Shen Yang
Executive Producer
Kaili Blues Ratings & Reviews
The Ringer
Adam Nayman
Bi has a gift gift for bewitching enigmas and virtuoso technique, and he is poised to become one of the most important Chinese filmmakers of the new millennium.
The Blue Lenses
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
If there is one single factor that can somehow explain the pleasure afforded by Bi Gan's directorial debut Kaili Blues, it would be its undisguised, unflinching audacity.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A beautifully photographed visual dream-like, original, oblique arthouse film.
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Kathy Fennessy
Whether Bi [Gan] is familiar with the work of Marcel Proust or Jorge Luis Borges, he's definitely on their wavelength.
Film Threat
Bradley Gibson
Not for everyone, Kaili Blues is more about tone and emotion than plot or character specifics. The cinematography is startlingly rich in the greens and blues of the landscape sliding by as you travel with Chen.
The New York Review of Books
J. Hoberman
The most elusive and the most memorable new movie that I've seen in quite some time.
Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
You get to know the cameraman almost as well as the characters in this film in which past, present, future as memories collide, merge and loop around in interlocking circles.
Film Inquiry
Alexander Miller
Kaili Blues is an achievement that stands above films of its kind for exceeding the aesthetic brevity that stands before it. It is immersive, unpredictable and heartfelt.
Eye for Film
Jennie Kermode
Kaili Blues reaches back into a timeless past and promises, for its bold young director, a brilliant future.
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Bi Gan directed this boldly original debut feature.
Boston Globe
Peter Keough
Bi's singular vision bears comparison to those of other geniuses such as Tarkovsky, Sokurov, David Lynch, Luis Buuel and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
For adventurous moviegoers, "Kaili Blues," which could draw comparisons to the early work of Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Zhangke Jia is an interesting and challenging film, worth taking a flier.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
A melancholy tale of loss and regret that marks a singular feature debut for the Chinese director Bi Gan.
Reverse Shot
K. Austin Collins
Viewers will remember it more for its heightened sense of artifice, for the strange smoothness of the camera's transitions on and off vehicles and into and out of various spaces.
New York Times
Ken Jaworowski
As lovely as the movie is to look at (and the final scene is exceptionally wonderful), it's too oblique to concentrate its energies and sharpen its focus.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
"Kaili Blues" has the kitchen-sink feel of a new director eager to try every art-film technique in the book, but the film's beauty and inventiveness are riveting.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Bi Gan's debut feature Kaili Blues ducks and doubles back like a fugitive trying to lose a tail, finding itself in stranger and stranger places.
Village Voice
Michael Nordine
Like Kafka by way of Apichatpong Weerasethakul ...
Variety
Nick Schager
A doctor travels to his hometown to rescue his nephew, in the process confronting his traumatic past, in Chinese director Bi Gan's aesthetically remarkable debut.
Film Comment Magazine
Andrew Chan
Yet the voice resonating behind these familiar motifs is one of such dazzling originality, it's hard to emerge from this waking dream of a film without feeling the shock of the new.
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