Sneak preview Thursday, December 18 at 7:00 p.m.
Returns Friday, January 2 through Sunday, January 4, and Friday, January 9 through Sunday, January 11 at 7:00 p.m.
Special additional matinee show Sunday, January 11 at 2:00 p.m.
(Bi Gan, 2025, China, 160 minutes)
The past few years have brought many talented filmmakers making big swings but ultimately not connecting: Babylon, Megalopolis, etc. But here comes 36-year-old Chinese virtuoso Bi Gan, already with two masterpieces already under his belt (2015’s Kaili Blues and 2018’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, both of which we ran to much success in 2024), making his most ambitious film yet, and, wouldn’t you know it, succeeding. (“Most ambitious” is a high bar for Bi to cross, considering his last film, Long Day’s Journey into Night, had an incredibly complicated unbroken hour-long 3-D shot at its climax!) Resurrection elaborates on Bi’s aesthetic and thematic concerns, which feel like a cross between Wong Kar Wai and David Lynch, but at the same time are entirely his own. With Resurrection we are in conversation with 100 years of film history, as humanity has embraced immortality at the expense of being able to dream, and only a “Fantasmer” (Chinese pop star Jackson Yee) can still traverse dream realms, which feel a lot like cinema. When was the last time you saw a new film that shows clear influence from and understanding of the films of Georges Méliès and F.W. Murnau, to name just two examples? With Taiwanese superstar Shu Qi (Millennium Mambo) as a mysterious woman, costumes by Hou Hsiao-hsien’s master production designer Hwarng Wern-ying, and music by the French electronic group M83. Winner of the Special Jury’s Award at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
In Mandarin with English subtitles.
You may also like the following events from Webster University Film Series:
- This Saturday, 22nd November, 07:00 pm, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk in Webster Groves
- Next month, 7th December, 07:00 pm, What's Up, Doc? in Webster Groves
- Next month, 9th December, 07:00 pm, Hundreds of Beavers in Webster Groves
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