Resurrection - Bi Gan (China/France, 2025, 2h 43min)

“Bi Gan’s beautiful, sprawling, and boundary-pushing hallucination RESURRECTION makes the case that — as its title emphatically announces — the movies themselves have remarkable staying power. Even as some of the captains of the mainstream entertainment industry appear intent on killing off cinematic practices like moviegoing, moviemakers like Bi are keeping the art very much alive … A glorious and hugely ambitious work.”
—Manohla Dargis, The New York Times (Critic’s Pick)
“Starring a gamely shape-shifting Jackson Yee and a sublime Shu Qi, it leads us on a multi-part odyssey through a century’s worth of film history. Along the way, it riffs on BLADE RUNNER and HOLY MOTORS; pays homage to the Lumière brothers, F. W. Murnau, and Georges Méliès; and burrows deep into the landscape of genre, where spies, gangsters, spirits, monsters, and vampires hold the keys to cinema’s enduring popularity and its capacity for renewal.”
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker
With his senses-ravishing third feature, visionary director Bi Gan (LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, KAILI BLUES) 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 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.
-- Write-up by the Austin Film Society

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