Kogonada reunites with Haley Lu Richardson for a loosely scripted Hong Kong mood piece that's richer in texture than in character. Reportedly burned out from navigating the logistics of big-budget filmmaking on A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, Kogonada was perhaps inevitably drawn back to working on a more intimate scale with Zi, an experimental mood piece set in Hong Kong that reunites the director with cinematographer Benjamin Loeb and actor Haley Lu.