Bi Gan's ‘Resurrection' Hits Cannes With 7-Minute Ovation At World Premiere
The world premiere of the Chinese filmmaker's latest movie received a seven-minute ovation at the Grand Thèâtre Lumière.
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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 some who rebel against this by living only in a dream world.
In a prologue, one woman — 'gifted with the power to perceive these illusions for what they truly are,' according to the Cannes logline — goes into this latter world to pull one of the dreamers out. It leads, as Deadline's Damon Wise wrote in his review tonight, 'vignettes that don't seem to have any plot or resolution whatsoever, which is certainly cool as a concept but not so much fun to watch.'
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The film, which seemed to garner a tepid response in the room — or maybe the audience was tired after its 155-minute runtime — played late Thursday on the second-to-last night of the festival, with the ceremony that awards the Palme d'Or set for Saturday evening here to wrap up the 2025 edition.
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