Tedious Days and Nights

"This challenging film offers a surprising picture of today's China and people on the edge of society. Despite its decadent and exploitative tone, director Zhenming Guo's absorbing film has evaded Chinese censorship and made its way to festivals around the world. Raw, physical and uncomfortable, the title follows a poet returning to his hometown.

It finds a place in moral decay and social decay, mirroring a part of Chinese society that has been forgotten as the country's economic growth has taken hold. Dark and possessed of explosive imagery, the narrative follows in the footsteps of the protagonist's trauma.

The film provides a shocking look at everyday life, explicit sexuality and a lost generation of Chinese artists haunted by the events of Tiananmen Square. Through an auteur's lens, it reveals the squalid living conditions on China's unreflective periphery and plunges into a darkly absurd abyss through the impasse. (The film contains explicit nudity and sex.)"