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An abandoned cat embarks on a journey to discover the most precious thing in the world.
A Short Story
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Le coeur du soleil brisé, The Broken Heart of the Sun, Po Sui Tai Yang Zhi Xin, The Broken Heart of the Sun: A Short Story
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Amazing, spectacular, never before seen. If people didn't know, this short film came about because someone in a pet food company loved Bi Gan's films and commissioned him to make a short film which could be about anything as long as it featured cats. And he agreed and thus we get this wonderful little fable. Wish I had money to commission people to make short films about magical cats.
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I had a black cat, his name was Magic. My aunt found him as a kitten, stuffed in a grocery bag, at the bottom of a trash compactor. She heard him meowing, climbed in, saved him, brought him home and eventually convinced my dad to take him in. He lived almost 18 years with me for much of my childhood and into my early adult years.
I’m not sure if I have ever talked much about it here, but in late-2018 my mental health took an abrupt turn for the worse; I found myself unable to maintain relationships or even hold down the (admittedly miserably shitty) restaurant job I’d been clinging to for a measly paycheck at the time.
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All the inventiveness of Bi Gan—the Chinese cineaste best known for an epic with an astonishing hour-long take—is channeled into his spellbinding new short. Unfurling from a feline point-of-view, this surrealist trick film draws from the realm of dreams and is brimming with technical magic.
Now showing exclusively (almost) globally here. A MUBI Release.
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Bi Gan you are a master and I will follow you to the edge of the galaxy and to the line where reality ends and then step over the line for you if you ask me to
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Don't you just love when filmmakers manage to maintain that childlike wonder? And as a consequence, we the audience also feel that wonderful curiosity and sense of beauty regarding what we see?
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Beautiful to behold, difficult to understand, a poem about a quest to find the three weirdos who might hold the answer to the black cat’s burning question: what’s the most precious thing in the world? The search finds loneliness, faded memories and leaves a sour and bitter aftertaste, but there’s magic too, and beauty to behold.
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How do you tell a friend how much they mean to you? You can travel all around the city, looking for answers, but sometimes, a flower is enough to say, I love you.
(also, cats are just simply better than dogs)
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1st Bi Gan
Extremely lovely images but I'll be damned if I have any idea what's going on here beyond the details. I'm too literal by half for Gan's poetry, and my limited attention span did catch me on my phone one too many times. Fault of me? Fault of the film? Maybe a bit of both. Not proud of being called out about it by my watch partner, but hey ho. As a series of vignettes, there's such an incredible understanding of the way in which the medium can be manipulated. There's one remarkable shot that lasts a few minutes but is entirely composed backwards, like Gan saw Twin Peaks and went "yeah, but I can do better" and…
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