Cannes 2025: With “Resurrection,” Bi Gan celebrates sweet dreams

The legend surrounding Bi Gan's Resurrection was skillfully maintained throughout a manufacturing and production process that seems to have taken on Dantesque proportions, judging by the blockbuster-like end credits, with hundreds of names appearing in every imaginable position. The film was deliberately placed at the end of the festival, as it would have only been finished a few days ago, identically reproducing the fever surrounding Wong Kar-wai's 2046 , which was screened in roughly the same late conditions in 2004. Bi Gan says that filming took place over more than a year, with interruptions to allow him to catch his breath and find inspiration. Seeking to combine all the handicaps or challenges, the Chinese director – revealed in 2016 with the impressive Kaili Blues filmed with limited resources, then with the 3D film A Long Journey Into the Night with its already extreme sophistication – develops a visual grammar requiring significant technical preparations (set, lighting, movement