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‘Resurrection’ Review: Bi Gan’s Dream Scenario Is The Perfect Cure For Insomnia – Cannes Film Festival
‘Resurrection’ Review: Bi Gan’s dream scenario is the perfect cure for insomnia.
The follow-up to 2018’s Un Certain Regard entry Long Day’s Journey into Night — which asked viewers to don 3D glasses for its spectacular climax, an unbroken, hourlong tracking shot — Resurrection is both breathtaking at times and airless at others. Themes bubble up, but they almost instantly disappear; there are nods to film noir (including an explicit reference to Jean-Pierre Melville’s The Samurai); the card-grift sequence seems to channel both Paper Moon and Takeshi Kitano’s Kikujiro; while the final stretch would appear to be an homage to Godard’s famous maxim that “all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun.” Title: Resurrection Festival: Cannes (Competition) Director-screenwriter: Bi Gan Cast: Yee Jackson, Shu Qi, Yan Nan Sales agent: Les Filmes Du Losanges Running time: 2 hr 35 mins
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