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A visually arresting tone poem, Kaili Blues asks more questions than it answers, drawing the audience into a dreamlike viewing experience with its own melancholy allure.
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Bi Gan directed this boldly original debut feature. August 11, 2016 | Full Review…
Bi Gan directed this boldly original debut feature.
Andrea Gronvall
Bi's singular vision bears comparison to those of other geniuses such as Tarkovsky, Sokurov, David Lynch, Luis Buuel and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. August 4, 2016 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Bi's singular vision bears comparison to those of other geniuses such as Tarkovsky, Sokurov, David Lynch, Luis Buuel and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Peter Keough
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. June 22, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
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.
G. Allen Johnson
A melancholy tale of loss and regret that marks a singular feature debut for the Chinese director Bi Gan. June 2, 2016 | Full Review…
A melancholy tale of loss and regret that marks a singular feature debut for the Chinese director Bi Gan.
Justin Chang
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. May 19, 2016 | Full Review…
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.
Ken Jaworowski
"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. May 19, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
"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.
Farran Smith Nehme
"Kaili Blues" is a genuine art-house film, confusing to follow but visually captivating and a great testament to Bi Gan's directorial abilities. December 25, 2019 | Full Review…
"Kaili Blues" is a genuine art-house film, confusing to follow but visually captivating and a great testament to Bi Gan's directorial abilities.
Panos Kotzathanasis
It's clear immediately that Bi isn't looking to deliver a straight-forward, narratively-coherent drama here... September 27, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
It's clear immediately that Bi isn't looking to deliver a straight-forward, narratively-coherent drama here...
David Nusair
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. April 15, 2019 | Full Review…
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.
Adam Nayman
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. August 25, 2018 | Full Review…
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.
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
A beautifully photographed visual dream-like, original, oblique arthouse film. July 27, 2018 | Rating: A | Full Review…
A beautifully photographed visual dream-like, original, oblique arthouse film.
Dennis Schwartz
The intense blues and greens, the saturated, tangibly thick light and shade of the settings, the impossible visions of twirling, ever-present disco mirror balls, defying space, are conjured into light and sound, and, via poetry, into cinema. October 2, 2017 | Full Review…
The intense blues and greens, the saturated, tangibly thick light and shade of the settings, the impossible visions of twirling, ever-present disco mirror balls, defying space, are conjured into light and sound, and, via poetry, into cinema.
Shelly Kraicer
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