"Fragmentation is as much a part of " Resurrection," the filmmaker's Cannes-winning third feature, as it was his debut "Kaili Blues," also about a man searching, this time, for a lost nephew in a dreamscape of a rapidly changing China. At 160 minutes, " Resurrection " imagines a world in which people have sacrificed the ability to dream for a chance at eternal life. Those who still dream, though, are called Deliriants, and one here is played by Jackson Yee."
"The mic-drop sequence here, in which a raincoat mafia descends upon a red-tinged rave and a pair of bloodthirsty lovers, is the apotheosis of director Bi's career, and one of the most dazzling movie moments of the year. "Resurrection" is a challenging movie to parse and almost impossible to fully grasp upon a first viewing, but its hallucinatory world will be a comforting one to fans of David Lynch and specifically "Twin Peaks: The Return";"
Resurrection is a 160-minute film that imagines a world where people trade dreaming for promised eternal life, leaving dreamers labeled Deliriants. Jackson Yee plays a Deliriant whose remaining dreams are enabled by a woman played by Shu Qi and enacted across five chapters modeled on cinematic eras: the silent era, Wellesian noir, the buddy movie, a war picture, and a vampire millennial romance. The film builds toward a dazzling, red-tinged, raincoat-mafia one-take sequence. Bi Gan co-wrote with Zhai Xiaohui and uses Dong Jingsong's reality-distorting cinematography and handcrafted technique to position cinema as a threatened, almost dying art form.
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