Resurrection
Synopsis
An audacious, ambitious vision from master filmmaker Bi Gan (Long Day’s Journey Into Night), Resurrection is a whirlwind love letter to cinema unlike any before. Set in a future where society has lost the desire to dream, a clandestine set of rebels called “Fantasmers” continue to indulge in fantasy and imagination. A curious creature, armed with a device able to extract their fading dreams, attempts to catalog these illusions. The result is a mesmerizing, maximalist masterpiece that toggles between a dizzying array of film styles and aesthetic modes—from a Méliès-inspired silent film to a slick story about playing card-toting con artists, as well as a bloodsoaked, red-filtered modern vampire romance.
To watch this layered, daring work is to experience five or six films in one. Replete with eye-popping production design, expertly choreographed long takes, and a constantly shifting rollercoaster of a narrative, Resurrection uses its sci-fi-inflected premise to ponder an art form’s past as it imagines its future.
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Screening
Sat, Oct 25 @ 7:00pm
at Gene Siskel Film Center, Screen 1
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Film Credits
- Shan Zuolong, Charles Gillibert. Yang Lele
- Bi Gan, Zhai Xiaohui
- Jackson Yee, Shu Qi, Mark Chao, Li Gengxi, Huang Jue, Chen Yongzhong, Guo Mucheng, Zhang Zhijian, Chloe Maayan, Yan Nan
- m83
- Bi Gan, Wan Juan
- Huace Pictures, Dangmai Films, CG Cinéma
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Annemarie JacirPalestine, U.K., France, Denmark, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan
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The Secret Agent O Agente Secreto
Synopsis
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a university researcher, is on the lam. He holes up in the seaside city of Recife, hoping to reconnect with his young son before ultimately escaping the country. Fearing for his life, he assumes an alias to avoid attracting the attention of Brazil’s military dictatorship. As he awaits his opportunity to flee, mysterious forces beyond his control start to close in around him.
Director Kleber Mendonça Filho (Pictures of Ghosts) offers an urgent, entertaining political thriller replete with international intrigue, mistaken identities, and red herrings galore. The film is at once a loving snapshot of a place in time and a timely fable about greed, power, and forces beyond our control. Winner of both the Best Actor (Wagner Moura) and Best Director prizes at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, The Secret Agent captivates with its twisting, turning plotlines and colorful ’70s flare.
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Film Credits
- Emilie Lesclaux
- Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Eduardo Serrano, Matheus Farias
- Evgenia Alexandrova
- Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Gabriel Leone, Carlos Francisco, Alice Carvalho, Hermila Guedes
- Brent Travers
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John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation
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Sentimental Value Affeksjonsverdi
Synopsis
In the wake of their mother’s passing, sisters Nora and Agnes are reunited with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned filmmaker. Never without an agenda, Gustav offers Nora, a talented but tortured stage actress, a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. After Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given the part to an eager young Hollywood star. As the film takes shape, the two sisters begin to see the echoes of their own stories in this work of supposed fiction, and they must confront their family’s complicated past before they can move forward.
Continuing to explore the emotional depths of human relationships with signature grace, Joaquim Trier (The Worst Person in the World) returns with this poignant family drama that draws the very best from its veteran cast, which includes Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, and Elle Fanning. Within the bright rooms of the family home—a protagonist in itself—Trier crafts a living stage in which cinema and the performance of generational wounds might offer hope of healing.
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Screening
Sun, Oct 19 @ 1:30pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 13
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Screening
Sat, Oct 25 @ 3:00pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 13
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Film Credits
- Maria Ekerhovd, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar
- Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt
- Olivier Bugge Coutté
- Kasper Tuxen Andersen
- Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas
- Eva Yates, Tom Quinn, Jeff Deutchman, Alexandre Mallet-Guy, Fridrik H. Mar, Magnus Thomassen, Kristina Börjeson, Anders Kjærhauge, Ola Strøm, Solène Léger, Nancy Grant, Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt
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Short Summer
Synopsis
Eight-year-old Katya is spending the summer with her grandparents in the Russian countryside. She and her friends play soccer, hide and seek, and roam the nearby fields, their lives adopting the languid rhythms of the season. Amid the rolling hills and serene landscapes, time seems to stand still. Yet all the while, a war is raging on the periphery, intruding on daily life in ways both large and small.
Drawing on real-life memories from her upbringing in the early 2000s during Russia’s Second Chechen War, director Nastia Korkia carefully crafts a picture of a childhood coexisting with chaos and conflict in which violence seems to lurk around every corner. Featuring some of the year’s most stirring, thought-provoking images and a textured, earth-toned visual palette, Short Summer is an unforgettable, atmospheric vision of growing up in the inescapable shadow of war.
Screenings & Events
Screening
Sun, Oct 19 @ 5:30pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 04
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Director Nastia Korkia
Screening
Mon, Oct 20 @ 5:00pm
at Gene Siskel Film Center, Screen 2
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Director Nastia Korkia
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Film Credits
- Dirk Decker, Andrea Schütte, Natalia Drozd
- Nastia Korkia, Mikhail Bushkov
- Benjamin Mirguet
- Evgeny Rodin
- Maiia Pleshkevich, Yakov Karykhalin, Aleksandr Karpushin, Vesna Jovanović, Alexander Feklistov
- Tamtam
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Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation
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Silent Friend
Synopsis
Nestled in the heart of a university campus in Germany, a majestic gingko tree stands tall. Bearing silent witness to the school’s history and the lives of the people that have passed through its halls, the stately plant serves as a kind of nexus that connects three characters across time: in 1908, the college’s first female student observes hidden patterns in plant life through photography; in 1972, a young student is profoundly changed by observing and cataloging the behavior of a geranium; in 2020, a neuroscientist (Tony Leung) in Covid lockdown begins a series of unexpected botanical experiments. Could the trees be watching us?
Seamlessly toggling between time periods, Silent Friend is a century-spanning exploration of humanity’s fascination with nature’s greatest mysteries. Featuring a stellar ensemble cast and a winsome sense of wonder, the film is a thoughtful meditation on longing, belonging, and what it means to be human.
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Screening
Wed, Oct 22 @ 8:30pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 06
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Director Ildikó Enyedi
Screening
Fri, Oct 24 @ 8:00pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 06
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Director Ildikó Enyedi
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Film Credits
- Reinhard Brundig, Monika Mécs, Nicolas Elghozi
- Ildikó Enyedi
- Károly Szalai
- Gergely Pálos
- Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Luna Wedler, Enzo Brumm, Sylvester Groth, Martin Wuttke, Johannes Hegemann, Rainer Bock, Léa Seydoux
- Gábor Keresztes, Kristóf Kelemen
- Pandora Film, Inforg-M&M Film, Galatée Films
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