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In a society where people stop dreaming to extend their lifespan, some dangerous individuals still dream, warping the fabric of time. We experience five dreams, for each of the senses, each chronologically representing a period of cinema. (NR, 163 min.)
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With his senses-ravishing third feature, visionary director Bi Gan takes his deepest plunge yet into the realm of pure cinematic dreamscape. In a world where humans have forsaken dreams in exchange for immortality, a dreaming monster (Jackson Yee) embarks on a shape-shifting odyssey through illusion, beauty, and terror that takes him across the twentieth century and to the end of time. Unfolding in five dazzlingly imagined chapters that encompass everything from silent-cinema expressionism to film noir to a delirious vampire love story shot in one of Bi’s signature long takes, Resurrection is a work of breathtaking imagination in which cinema is the ultimate portal to the unconscious mind. [Janus]
Starring: Jackson Yee, Shu Qi
Director: Bi Gan
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Fantasy / Drama
"It’s a work of real artistry."
— Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
"Simply put, no working filmmaker is better at taking the audience for a ride."
— Adam Nayman, Toronto Star
"This kind of unhinged ambition is what cinema does better than anything else."
— Ed Potton, The Times (UK)
"Resurrection is a total work of art, an immersive and layered metafilm that must be seen to be believed."
— Rob Silverman Ascher, Chicago Reader
"The most adventurous and formally ambitious film of this year’s Cannes competition. A soul-stirring feat that will inspire generations to come."
— Tomris, Laffly Elle
"Resurrection strips its audience down and builds them back up again, revealing how we change the art we make, and how it changes us in turn."
— Jacob Oller, AV Club
"It’s a staggering feast for the senses (each segment revolves around one of them) but even more so a true love letter to cinema written bold and brilliant."
— Hannah Strong, Little White Lies
"Resurrection is a full-sensory experience; indeed, each chapter is framed around the theme of the six Buddhist senses: Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch and mind."
— Ty Burr, Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack)
"The deeper that Resurrection goes, the more that Gan’s vision delicately, meticulously, and, of course, slowly envelopes you, no matter your level of comprehension."
— Barry Hertz, Globe and Mail
"A tour-de-force of unbound creativity, its silky staging, enchanting performances, and playful inventiveness combining to make it one of the year’s undisputed big-screen highlights."
— Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
"Arriving at a moment when the movies have seldom felt more finite or more vulnerable... this astonishing work insists -- in its title, and in the heroic force of Bi’s artistry and ambition -- that every end really is a new beginning."
— Justin Chang, The New Yorker
