The 26-year-old writer and director Bi Gan's debut feature, "Kaili Blues," which opens at Metrograph in New York City on May 20, is an imprecise, sui generis mystery filmed in China's Guizhou province that sleepwalks to the drifting rhythms of poetry instead of prose. Some of Bi's own verse appears in the film, and when I asked him over email if poetry or filmmaking came first, he corrected me. "I became a poor poet …
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:21PM on May 20, 2016