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.

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.

The most elusive and the most memorable new movie that I've seen in quite some time.

I find it a particularly absorbing film by debut director Bi, who, with a singular and poetic aesthetic, builds a profound meditation on memory, time, and the socio-economic precarities of rural China. [Full review in Spanish]