A visual masterwork that plunges you into a pure dreamscape of illusion, beauty, and a century of cinema, eventually depositing you at the end of time.
In a future where humanity has surrendered its ability to dream in exchange for immortality, an outcast finds illusion, nightmarish visions, and beauty in an intoxicating world of his own making. Unfolding in six chapters that encompass everything from silent-era expressionism to film noir to a delirious vampire love story shot in one of Bi Gan’s signature long takes, Resurrection is visionary Chinese director Bi’s (Long Day's Journey Into Night) work of breathtaking imagination wherein cinema is the ultimate portal to the unconscious mind. [160 min; drama, sci-fi; Chinese and Mandarin with English subtitles]
"By making a film that is as much a dream as it is a movie, Bi paints cinema as a mélange of the past, present, future and beyond." — Teresa Xie, NPR
"Bi Gan’s vivid storytelling moves through the astral planes in Resurrection, reincarnating a rebel dreamer (Jackson Yee) across 100 years of Chinese history, experienced as six chapters each in a different cinematic style." — Arjun Sajip, Sight and Sound
"Cinema isn't just a medium here, it's a healing balm, able to save the Deliriant’s tormented soul by exorcising his darkest impulses and replacing them with moments of sheer filmic wonder." — Alice Savile, Time Out
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