Resurrection

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Resurrection

2025

2h 43m

Drama

Sci-Fi

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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.

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Pushing against the boundaries of storytelling with overwhelming style, Bi Gan's Resurrection is equal parts inscrutable and invigoratingly awake to the endless possibilities of cinema.

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

Mar 20, 2026

5/5

Resurrection, shot with extravagant beauty by Dong Jingsong, makes more sense on first viewing than the director perhaps allows. Each story is whole in itself. But it has the quality of a gorgeous knot that will never fully be untied.

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Arjun Sajip

Sight & Sound

Mar 13, 2026

Bi Gan’s vivid storytelling moves through the astral planes in Resurrection, reincarnating a rebel dreamer (Jackson Yee) across 100 years of Chinese history, experienced as six chapters each in a different cinematic style.

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Alice Savile

Time Out

Mar 12, 2026

4/5

Its intricately-wrought plot strands seem to fall apart as you try to grasp them, like snowflakes melting on hot skin. There are connections and resonances, sure, but it doesn't feel as though the Deliriant's dreams are ultimately intended to make sense.

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Gabriel Winslow-Yost

The New York Review of Books

Sep 2, 2026

It is easy to get lost in Resurrection’s swarming falsities, especially on first viewing. Its menagerie of styles, stories, symbols, references, and effects seems intentionally overwhelming—a rapturous, frustrating, exhausting experience.

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André Didyme-Dôme

Rolling Stone en Español

Aug 14, 2026

Resurrection, despite all its dazzling visual architecture, ends up resembling an extraordinary museum more than an unforgettable dream. [Full review in Spanish]

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Erick Estrada

Cinegarage

Jul 13, 2026

At times it's more of a visual installation than a narrative, but it's definitely a narrative made from the heart, for the heart, which I think we should be very, very grateful for in contemporary cinema. [Full review in Spanish]

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Kyle

Oct 26, 2026

Like being waterboarded by a rainbow kaleidoscope. Absolutely incomprehensible and probably without reason that aren’t within the realm of tech demo. But I think I might’ve grasped something intangible akin to God

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Robyn K

Jan 16, 2026

So boring and ambiguous. Not even beautiful to watch!

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William

Jan 13, 2026

Beat looking movie of the year

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Rad

Jan 9, 2026

one of the year's best. 4th story was beautiful beyond words.

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jesse v

Jan 7, 2026

Abstractism at its finest in this anthology series of films where the cinematography is too immaculate and methodical for the runtime of the whole thing.

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Chris L

Jan 7, 2026

Have no idea what its about, the worst movie of my life. Congratulations if you can understand! Shu Qi is my favorite star but this is terrible movie.

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Synopsis

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.

Director: Gan Bi
Producer: Zuolong Shan, Yang Lele, Charles Gillibert
Screenwriter: Gan Bi, Zhao Xiaohui
Distributor: Janus Films
Production Co: Huace Pictures, Dangmai Films
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Original Language: Chinese
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 12, 2025, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $620.5K
Runtime: 2h 43m

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