Kaili Blues follows a compassionate doctor in the Guizhou town of Kaili who returns home and searches for a missing relative, only to be drawn into a maze of memory and time. The film unfolds with patient, long takes and austere interiors that blur present and past, creating a hypnotic mood. Bi Gan builds a poignant, dreamlike meditation on home, family, and the ways memory wounds and sustains us, leaving a quiet, lingering sense of longing.
Interconnected Lives, Drama, Slow Cinema, Mystery, Family Drama