23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Cannes 2025: Resurrection movie review – Shu Qi, Jackson Yee in Bi Gan's ambitious drama
3/5 stars
Eight years on from his critically acclaimed
Long Day's Journey Into Night , a commercial flop, Chinese auteur filmmaker Bi Gan, 35, is back at the Cannes Film Festival with an even more audacious and potentially divisive film.
Dedicated to the French film historian and critic Pierre Rissient, Resurrection is a film made by, and for, hardcore cinephiles.
For those who appreciate early 20th century silent movies and German expressionist cinema, and are into the sport of counting the minutes during long takes, the 35-year-old Bi's visually dazzling, remarkably ambitious and reference-laden feature will be something to behold.
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With its sprawling, near-indecipherable narrative and a lack of clearly defined cultural signposts, Resurrection will prove to be pretty difficult viewing for the casual film-goer.
