Cannes 2025 – Resurrection: Bi Gan signs a false great film (critic)

Ample film by its duration and its form around a great subject, the Chinese film, tribute to the powers of cinema, locks itself into its own system. Using.

After A big trip to night In 2018, we wondered what type of artist was rightly bi gan: a new prophet or his perfect countertype, an author who would not have much to say with his camera and would smoke under a dummy virtuosity layer? This Resurrection has the merit of lifting part of the veil. If the first part places its staging in the service of a visceral and sincere love for the cinema of the origins (hello the Frérots Lumière!), Once the Pandora box (here a suitcase!) Open the magic evaporates immediately. The film then embarked on a long night walk in the heart of its own emptiness. In the absence of mystery, the images and sounds, flatly treated, produce nothing more than a fairly basic cinema dialectic.

Gallery of broken reflections (cuckoo Orson Welles!), Reconfiguration of time (the passage to the year 2000 as chaos announced … Mouais), alert sense by subtraction (“If I lose hearing I would cross the mirror!“) … It is not only with intentions or intuitions that a film exists, it needs bodies, the lifetime, organs … Now everything is dead. And the promise of a possible resurrection will not be held. Where is Bi gan in the meanders of its tired poetry? In the absence of a vortex in which all the memory of the cinema would have been agglomerated – Arrangements between characters that we don’t care.

There is talk of a world where the dream would be prohibited. Only the “dreamers” (aka the moviegoers) allow themselves in clandestinity a trip in their unconscious made by others (the films therefore). Beautiful program. Vain promises. If cinema as prophesied by the cantors of German expressionism is the “shadows” language, they hide nothing here. And if someone had fun brutally lighting the light inside the frame, the dark corners would only reveal emptiness, where precisely an entire imagination should have been developed in secret.

Finally, we heard this valve halfway through. “”What do we lose and never find? ““A fart!“No better.

China. De Bi gan. With: Jackson Yee, Shu Qi, Mark Chao … Duration: 2h40. Indefinite exit.