Paris-based sales and distribution company Les Films du Losange has boarded “Resurrection,” a sci-fi detective movie directed by Chinese director Bi Gan, whose 2018 film “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” played at Cannes.
Headlined by Chinese stars Jackson Yee (“Better Days”) and Shu Qi (“The Assassin”), the movie just wrapped the second part of its shooting. It will resume filming in the fourth quarter of this year.
“Resurrection” tells the story of a woman whose consciousness falls into the “eternal time zone” during a surgical procedure. Trapped in many dreams, she finds an android corpse and tries to wake it up by telling it stories. The android then wanders through her stories and its senses gradually awaken.
Co-produced by Charles Gillibert’s CG Cinema, the project marks Bi’s first film since “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” which contained a bravura final 59-minute sequence consisting of a single shot in 3D.
The key crew for “Resurrection” includes cinematographer Dong Jingsong, whose credits include “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” “The Wild Goose Lake” and “Black Coal, Thin Ice,” along with production designer Tu Nan (Wong Kar-wai’s “Blossoms Shanghai”) and costume designer Huang Wen-Ying (“The Assassin”). A photographer and poet, Bi made his debut feature, “Kaili Blues,” which won two prizes at Locarno in 2015 among a flurry of accolades.
Les Films du Losange is also handling sales on Alain Guiraudie’s “Misericordia,” which premiered at Cannes and is playing in the fall fest circuit, including Toronto and the New York Film Festival.