Recent Viewings, Part 2

[Rev. Powell]

RESURRECTION (2025): We watch five illicit dreams of a "deliriant" rebel who continues to dream despite a futuristic ban on the practice. Bi Gan's epic anthology flows stylistically through the history of cinema, from silent expressionism through film noir all the way to millennial terror; some sections are dreamlike and others are straight dramas or magical realist parables, but all are enacted with luminous poetry and visual flair (including one of Gan's trademark ridiculously complex tracking shots). An event of a movie aimed squarely at deep cinephiles. 4.5/5.