Well, sort of...Dennis is in glacial mode here in this survey of what is playing in and around San Francisco this week. He makes RESURRECTION sound as though it ia, in fact, its exact opposite... Its 156 minutes utilize a sci-fi premise as an excuse to trip through what (at least initially) feels like the entire history of cinema, moving through different genres, techniques, and periods. Those who found Long Day somewhat impenetrable--especially since it was misleadingly marketed to Chinese audiences as a simple love story--will be even more baffled by this exquisite-corpse structure of cryptic, successive narratives. Taken as pure phantasmagoria, however it achieves a level of aesthetic sumptuousness that’s its own reward.
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on 12/22/2025, 8:26 pm
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