Chinese director Bi tells IndieWire about outdoing even his long-take sequences in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" and "Kaili ...
Bi Gan stuns with another jaw-dropping oner in Resurrection, a dreamy anthology designed to make you appreciate cinema.
The Chinese director Bi Gan, who has become a lauded fixture on the festival circuit, conjures a boundary-pushing tale that ...
Resurrection' contains one of director Bi Gan's signature long takes — lasting 30 minutes — but the movie is also a euphoric, ...
With “Resurrection,” the director has made a surrealist epic not just about Chinese history but about the cinema itself.
The logic of dreams Bi Gan’s “Resurrection” (film review) by Bondo Wyszpolski There are movies, which entertain, and then ...
Told in six, interconnected yet standalone parts, Resurrection acts in conversation with several points of the development of the cinematic language. Its first, and, arguably, most successful part is ...
The former can feel interminable and endless, the sensation of enduring a cinematic kind of solitary confinement, the filmgoer trapped in the laziest and most selfish recesses of a director’s mind.
Having trouble sleeping? Try Bi Gan’s slow cinema experiment, Resurrection. Side effects may include drowsiness, boredom, and increased sense of confusion. Ask your doctor about Bi Gan’s Resurrection ...
One of the most audacious young auteurs working today, 35-year-old Chinese director Bi Gan makes movies that don’t pull you in as much as they slowly wash over you. Moody, melancholic and filled with ...
That surge has been historic: Huo Meng’s “Living the Land” took best director at the Berlin Film Festival, Bi Gan’s “Resurrection” earned the jury special prize at Cannes, and Cai Shangjun’s “The Sun ...
Few figures of contemporary cinema are more shrouded in mystery than Bi Gan, and no film this year posed a bigger question ...