Resurrection

AroView: A thrillingly ambitious Chinese epic told in six parts, each inspired by one of the senses (including the Buddhist sense of ‘mind’) and informed by a different genre of 20th century cinema – silent expressionism, period gangster, metaphysical drama, cynical crime thriller and a millennial vampire tale.

The conduit for these connected visions is a mutant figure known as a ‘deliriant’ (Jackson Yee) who shape-shifts through five incarnations and defiantly dares to dream in a world where dreams have been renounced. It’s a breathless, kaleidoscopic vision that, at over two-and-a-half hours, might take more than one viewing to fully absorb and appreciate, yet it surely ranks with the greatest attempts to render material the ever-elusiveness domain of the sub-conscious.

“Narratively and stylistically chameleonic, it’s a sci-fi-flavored, century-spanning cinematic collage and profound invitation to dream.” ~Zhuo-Ning Su, The Film Stage

“It’s a film with the power to fundamentally rewire your brain as it puts itself in conversation with the ghosts of cinema’s past.” ~Chase Hutchinson, The Playlist

“For those who miss the way the movies used to act on us, it is a reminder of the uniquely paradoxical pleasures of immersion and surrender: a dazzlingly cine-literate lesson in the lost art of letting go.” ~Jessica Kiang, Variety