Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night was one of the formative films of the last decade; opening with a dazzling 30 minute long shot take before dropping us right into the title cards in a way that no other film has really done before – breathtakingly brilliant and completely unique in ambition. It comes as no surprise that Resurrection is just about as one of a kind as you’d hope a Bi Gan-directed science fiction epic existing outside the memory of time and space would be; a fragmented descent into Chinese history through the leering framework of a camera – brave in its vision: the opening 20 minutes this time are silent as we see a monster entranced by the visions of a dreamworld at a time where humanity have lost the ability to dream.

Told across six chapters and already nearly th

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