Paris-based sales and distribution company Les Films du Losange has acquired the rights to “Resurrection,” a sci-fi crime thriller from Chinese director Bi Gan, whose 2018 film “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” premiered at Cannes.
The film stars Chinese stars Jackson Yee (Better Days) and Xu Qi (The Assassin), and the second part has just wrapped filming. Filming is scheduled to resume in the fourth quarter of this year.
The movie “Resurrection” is about a woman whose consciousness is trapped in an “eternal time zone” during a surgical operation. While she is haunted by many dreams, she finds the corpse of a robot and tries to wake it up by telling it stories. The robot then wanders between her stories and its senses gradually awaken.
Produced in collaboration with Charles Gilbert's CG Cinema, this is Bee's first film since Long Day's Journey Into Night, which featured a stunning 59-minute final sequence consisting of a single 3D shot.
The main cast of “Resurrection” includes cinematographer Dong Jingsong, whose credits include “Long Day’s Journey into Night,” “Wild Goose Lake” and “Black Coal and Thin Ice,” along with production designer Tu Nan (Wong Kar-wai’s “Shanghai Flowers”) and costume designer Huang Wen-ying (“The Killer”). A photographer and poet, Pei directed his first feature film, “Kelly Blues,” which won two Locarno awards in 2015 among a string of awards.
Les Films du Losange is also responsible for sales of Alain Guiraudie's “Misericordia,” which premiered at Cannes and is screening at fall festivals, including Toronto and the New York Film Festival.
