PMA Films

PMA Films and the Chinese & American Friendship Association of Maine are proud to present a weekend featuring some of the most celebrated arthouse films from China in a rare chance to see them on a big screen.

PMA Films and the Chinese & American Friendship Association of Maine are proud to present a weekend featuring some of the most celebrated arthouse films from China in a rare chance to see them on a big screen. The movies include Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018), Shadow (2018), Ash Is Purest White (2018), and One Child Nation (2019). Not rated. Various running times. In Chinese and other languages with subtitles.

In Long Day's Journey into Night, Bi Gan follows up his knockout debut, Kaili Blues, with this noir-tinged stunner about a lost soul (Jue Huang) on a quest to find a missing woman from his past (Wei Tang, Lust, Caution). Following leads across Guizhou province, he crosses paths with a series of colorful characters, among them a prickly hairdresser played by Taiwanese superstar Sylvia Chang. When the search leads him to a dingy movie theater, the film launches into an hour-long, gravity-defying sequence that plunges its protagonist—and us—into a labyrinthine cityscape. China's biggest arthouse hit of all time, the film took in more than $40 million dollars in its opening weekend at the domestic box office.

Directed by: Bi Gan
Run time: 140 minutes
Rated: NR