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Review | Resurrection: Shu Qi, Jackson Yee in Bi Gan’s Wildly Ambitious Drama
- Director Bi Gan premiered his third film, Resurrection, starring Shu Qi and Jackson Yee, on Thursday at Cannes' Grand Théâtre Lumière in 2025.
- Bi Gan conceived Resurrection during the pandemic, following his acclaimed 2018 film Long Day’s Journey Into Night, with Yee portraying a character called the Fantasmer.
- The film, running 155 minutes, explores a near-future where humanity cannot dream and features nested stories linked to different eras and senses, blending noir, folk tale, and expressionistic elements.
- The premiere received a seven-minute ovation but met a tepid critical response, with Deadline's Damon Wise noting the vignettes lack plot and resolution despite the ambitious concept.
- Resurrection presents a complex reflection on cinema’s fading art and invites patient viewers to engage with its intricate, paradoxical narrative and melancholic tone.
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Cinema Resurrects in Cannes's Final Straight
The final line of Cannes has become an unexpected esprint driven by the creative intensity of some exceptional films. Resurrection, by the Chinese Bi Gan, has aroused a logical enthusiasm. It is a journey through the history of cinema through the dreams of a character-monster, Fantasmer, who has been inside all possible films. For 160 minutes, the viewer travels a century of cinema through different genres, techniques and languages. Bi Gan’s ima…
Cannes's Masterpiece Came on the Horn, Bi Gan Honors and Reinvents Cinema with 'Resurrection'
The Chinese filmmaker offers an overwhelming look at the collective power of cinema, the only language one can trust, in a proposal that should win the Palm de OroEverything about the Cannes Festival - Carla Simón: “The generation of AIDS and heroin turned the conservative values of Francoism upside down” On the same day that the calendar of projections of this edition of the Cannes Festival was published, the contest revealed that there was one…
Bi Gan’s ‘Resurrection’ Hits Cannes With 7-Minute Ovation At World Premiere
Bi Gan was back at the Cannes Film Festival with his new movie Resurrection after his Un Certain Regard entry Long Day’s Journey into Night in 2018. The world premiere of the Chinese filmmaker’s latest movie received a seven-minute ovation at the Grand Thèâtre Lumière. Yee Jackson, Shu Qi and Yan Nan star in the pic, which is at least partly set in a world where humanity has lost the ability to dream (and thereby live forever). There are som…
‘Resurrection’ Review: Bi Gan’s Extravagant Act of Surrender to the Seductions of a Century of Cinema
Do you remember when we used to watch movies with the undivided attention we give to our dreams? Bi Gan, the Chinese director behind 2018’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” sure does. And so, seven years later, his return — or his “Resurrection” — arrives: a marvelously maximalist movie of opulent ambition that is actually five or six movies, each at once playful and peculiar and part of an overarchingly melancholy elegy for the dream of 20th-cen…
Resurrection: Cannes Surrenders to Cinema in Superlative Apnea of Ghosts and Dreams Signed by Bi Gan (*****)
The director of Long Journey into the Night, a film with a sequence of one hour in 3D, surprises again with a hypnotic journey to the background of cinema as an out-of-time dream experience Read
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