Resurrection

But who is the dreamer? * * *If Lynch and Tarkovsky collabed on a film, Bi Gan’s Resurrection would be it. I’ve never been more mesmerized by a film about film. This is hands down the best film of 2025 no contest. * First it was Leos Carax’s Holy Motors that moved me, Bi Gan’s Resurrection takes it up a whole different level on full arthouse steroids - a truly crazed painter, using film as the canvas. A masterpiece of filmmaking. At times I was speechless as to how Bi Gan could have thought of certain shots, color palette and angles. The whole movie feels like a painting, not in the traditional sense: we see how film is used as a medium for art. I don’t even know how to begin. Surrealist asian slow cinema as seen through the eyes of Bi Gan. Seriously some of the best cinematography i have ever seen. Seriously an all you cam eat buffet for the eyes for almost 3 hrs of run time. Bi Gan is seriously operating here in a league of his own and the fact that no one has even talked about the movie and it received zero attention at Cannes just goes to prove this movies very point: directors are the crazy delirious dreamers, inviting the audience into their little crazy worlds. Gan structures the movie simply: we enter the mind of a deliriant dreamer and he masterfully depicts the human subconscious through five vignettes: neo-noir mystery/thriller, meditative and religious reflection in the temple, magic in the sanitorium, chinese new year vampires. At first glance it may seem disconnected: were jumping from dream to dream. “We are like the dreamer who dreams and then dreams inside the dream” …but “who is the dreamer?” Were given the full spectrum of human emotion in these five vignettes: tension, sadness, melancholy, somberness, desire, madness, delusion, passion, love, lust. The hollowed out world of the dreamers dream is the metaphorical subconscious mindscape of the dreamer: in it we see dazzling visuals and unexpected sounds. We as the audience are fully in the mind of Bi Gan, the dreamer.