Virtuoso Chinese director Bi Gan (Long Day’s Journey Into Night) returns with a film that heralds the death of cinema while magnificently celebrating it.
Spanning a century, Resurrection divides into six chapters, each taking place in a specific cinematic era and genre, from actualities, through expressionism and noir to the vampire film. In the future, humans have attained immortality – as long as they don’t dream. The dissident or Deliriant (Jackson Yee) shape-shifts as he time-travels through an odyssey that keeps pace with Chinese history. Unlike anything else, this striking ode to the power of cinema has sequences that are absolutely breathtaking. It cries out for the big screen; sit back and dare to dream deliriously.
