Resurrection (Original Soundtrack)

Chinese director Bi Gan’s Cannes-award-winning arthouse sci-fi film Resurrection is set in a world where people can live forever but have lost their ability to dream, save for a select few mystical creatures who can bring humans into their hallucinogenic headspace. And who better to musically conjure its surreal, meditative vibe than M83’s Anthony Gonzalez, whose luminous electronic pop has long hovered in the liminal space between fantasy and the waking world. His Resurrection score balances immersive ambient synthscapes (like the two-part “Spinning Fury”) with organic orchestral pieces (“From Bright Lights”) and neoclassical piano/violin reveries (“Spectres”) that, like dreams themselves, feel both comfortingly familiar and fascinatingly foreign. Resurrection is appended with two instalments of “Fantasmers”, the soundtrack to a silent film within the film where Gonzalez gets to step out of his usual futurist framework and indulge his most extravagant Golden Age of Hollywood visions.