Resurrection

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Resurrection

2025

2h 43m

Drama

Sci-Fi

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89 Reviews

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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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Critics Consensus

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

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

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 Saville

Time Out

Mar 12

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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Nando Salvá

Cinemanía (Spain)

Apr 30

5/5

This display of virtuosity doesn't function as mere ostentation; rather, it manages to convey both a genuine enthusiasm for all the illusions the medium can generate and, often, relevant meanings. [Full review in Spanish]

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Elsa Fernández-Santos

El Pais (Spain)

Apr 30

Replete with references to cinematic forms and 20th-century Chinese history, Resurrection is an intricate and hallucinatory collage-film, designed to be swept away by its imaginative torrent and enjoyed along the way. [Full review in Spanish]

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Craig D. Lindsey

Nashville Scene

Apr 30

This film is Bi’s salute to his fellow cinematic dream-weavers, done as ambitiously and audaciously as possible — a big-screen bouillabaisse that’ll certainly make cinephiles giddy.

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Robyn K

Jan 16

So boring and ambiguous. Not even beautiful to watch!

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William

Jan 13

Beat looking movie of the year

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Rad

Jan 9

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

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jesse v

Jan 7

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

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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Yan J

Jan 7

Terrible, no meaning

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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