Bi Gan’s Dream Factory

Bi Gan’s Dream Factory

Dennis Zhou on the director Bi Gan, whose latest feature, “Resurrection,” is a surrealist epic not just about Chinese history but about the cinema itself.

Bi Gan's "Resurrection" - a cinematic journey

The logic of dreams Bi Gan’s “Resurrection” (film review) by Bondo Wyszpolski There are movies, which entertain, and then there are films which engage and challenge, and Bi Gan sits high on my list in the latter category. There aren’t many current or recent directors that I’m impassioned about (Wong Kar-Wai, Bela Tarr, Paolo Sorrentino, are others), so he’s definitely in select company. It’s been seven years since Bi Gan’s “Long Day’s Journey In…

RESURRECTION Review: Fashioning an Alternate History of Cinema

Jackson Yee and Shu Qi star in Bi Gan's new film. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Resurrection — Bi Gan [Review]

Having propelled himself to cinephilic fame with the mesmerizing Kaili Blues (2015) and, more recently, an audaciously mind-bending interpretation of dreams in 2018’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, Chinese auteur Bi Gan has come to be lauded for his seductive and hypnotic cinematic form, a form inextricably fostered from the sheer technical prowess which saw [...] The post Resurrection — Bi Gan [Review] appeared first on In Review Online.

Resurrection Review: A Triumph of Sheer Audacity and Exceptional Craft

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. Resurrection opens in theaters on December 12. Few filmmakers with just two features under their belt can amass the passionate, cinephilic following of Bi Gan. His blend of surrealist storytelling, ultra-realist aesthetics, and a trippy play with time transforms rural China into a place of hypnotic beauty. Seven years after Long Day’s Journey Into Night, the wait fo…