Bi Gan’s ‘Resurrection’ – Review Thread


A woman's consciousness falls into an eternal time zone during a surgical procedure. Trapped in many dreams, she finds the corpse of an android and tries to wake him up by telling endless stories.

Rotten Tomatoes: 90%

Metacritic: 79 / 100

Some Reviews:

The Film Stage – Zhuo-Ning Su – 10 / 10

Narratively and stylistically chameleonic, it’s a sci-fi-flavored, century-spanning cinematic collage and profound invitation to dream. Bi Hive, rejoice: this is Palme material. Through the film’s five parts (including prologue and epilogue), Bi showcases five distinct cinematic styles that confirm the silver screen has always been a portal for us to escape reality; and that, as creators and consumers of cinema, we are helping to keep the act of dreaming alive for our increasingly unimaginative species.

Variety – Jessica Kiang

For those who miss the way the movies used to act on us, it is a reminder of the uniquely paradoxical pleasures of immersion and surrender: a dazzlingly cineliterate lesson in the lost art of letting go.

The Wrap – Ben Croll

Many might come up with a sequence that overlays gangster and horror tropes with bursts of violence and dance; few would then toggle between first-and third-person perspectives; and only Bi Gan would have that first-person camera start singing karaoke. The result is cine-euphoria – capping the film and this year’s Cannes Film Festival with something wholly new. “Resurrection” may end with an elegy, laying cinema to rest, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. We’ve only just Bi Gan.  

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