Synopsis
Maintain control.
A woman's carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she's evaded for two decades.
Directed by Andrew Semans
A woman's carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she's evaded for two decades.
復生, Resurrección, 부활, Sombras do Passado, Kísért a múlt, 复生, Znovuzrození, قيامة, Воскрешение, Wskrzeszenie, Prisikėlimas, Rinascita, תחייה, Diriliş, Воскресіння, คืนชีพ, Renaștere, Възкресение, Uskrsnuće
Imagine being the poor intern that has to stand there and listen to Rebecca Hall’s demented eight minute monologue and then go home and pretend everything’s fine
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
better, weirder, gorier, creepier than expected!
seems like a run-of-the-mill paranoid thriller until the audacious 8-minute unbroken close-up monologue by rebecca hall shatters the veil of normalcy. tim roth goes Full Freak and i love him for it!
Fiendishly splitting the difference between the kind of low-rent parental vigilante movies that will always live on basic cable, and the kind of high-brow polymorphic freakouts that all but died with Andrzej Żuławski, Andrew Semans’ aptly named “Resurrection” may never quite reach “Possession” levels of psychic collapse (what does?), but it sure gets a hell of a lot closer than the broad familiarity of its setup might lead you to expect. In fact, the first act of this impressively deranged Sundance premiere almost seems to lure you into a false sense of security on purpose.
There have been any number of basic psychological thrillers about strong women who get dismissed as “hysterical” and/or gaslit into self-doubt when they report an…
Oh I was so into this - wickedly good, nasty performances from Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth but I also loved how the script is just constantly fucking with someone and that seesaws between us and them all the time. Much to be said on gaslighting and mothering and protecting and leaving but it’s also just such horrible fun to watch without thinking about any of it
“Are you fucking kidding me? Fucking men. You can’t stick your dick in anything without deciding that you love it or you hate it. You don’t love me, you just annoy me. Impede my mission once more and I’ll beat you till dead.”
I think Rebecca Hall should rule the world.
Obviously a great actors showcase for Hall and Roth that gestures towards the abusive, unhinged grieving couple dynamics of previous arthouse allegory genre outings like Possession or Antichrist and the chilly city atmospherics/psychological unraveling of Dead Ringers (which it even cribs part of its climax from) but also suffers a bit from the same thing all these modern "elevated" movies do in the sense that it's basically got one incredibly simple idea that it hammers over and over for the majority of its runtime at a really slow, mysterious, self-satisfied pace.
I like that Hall gets to go to some uglier, more complicated places in the nuances of her expressions and there's some solid tense mood at times but there…