An already acclaimed filmmaker in his own right after 2015’s Kaili Blues won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival and 2018’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night was selected for the Cannes Film Festival – the Un Certain Regard title blew the Croisette away. A seven year journey, we get more Andrei Tarkovsky, Wong Kar-wai and way more cinema references with Resurrection. With production taking place at different junctures over the last years, this stars Jackson Yee and Shu Qi in multi time periods and cinema universes – tells the story of a woman whose consciousness enters an eternal time zone during a medical procedure. Trapped in a dreamscape, she encounters an android corpse and attempts to awaken it by recounting stories. As the android traverses these stories, its senses begin to awaken, driving a surreal journey of self-discovery. Competition film #20 was offered late last night to the jury and film critics.
If there was a film to disturb the final rankings of our chart, we feel that it would have been this offering from Bi Gan. Despite some perfect scores of 5 stars, with about half of our jury having screened the film, we are looking at a score in the 3.1 average range. This will win something at the festival.
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