RESURRECTION Trailer: Bi Gan’s Fantasia of Cinema & Dreams Arrives This Winter

You haven’t seen anything quite like Bi Gan’s Resurrection. His first feature film since 2018’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, the writer-director ventures into bolder, more ambitious territory here in this anthology sci-fi film, which divides the narrative into six chapters, incorporating the aesthetics of numerous genres and time periods. Such chapters include a Méliès-inspired opening sequence, a wartime-era noir, a Paper Moon-esque swindler tale, and a vampire romance at the beginning of a new millennium. It stars Jackson Yee as an inhuman creature in a far-off future, who is the only one who can dream. His consciousness is entered by a mysterious woman (longtime Hou Hsiao-Hsien collaborator Shu Qi) who explores the dreams that will unfold before our eyes. It also stars Mark Chao, Li Gengxi, Huan Jue, and Chen Yongzhong.

Following its Cannes premiere (where it won a Special Jury Prize) and screening at NYFF, Janus Films has set it for a December 12 release in select theaters.

As the official synopsis reads:

In a future where humanity has surrendered its ability to dream in exchange for immortality, an outcast (Jackson Yee) finds illusion, nightmarish visions, and beauty in an intoxicating world of his own making. A work of staggering imagination from visionary Chinese director Bi Gan (Long Day’s Journey Into Night), Resurrection conjures vast and ever-shifting worlds on the brink of collapse in an era-spanning journey through our deepest and most human desires.

Check out the trailer and poster below.

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