Identical twins consider an inevitable separation on the eve of the Millennium in Wanweaw Hongvivatana and Weawwan Hongvivatana’s quirky Thai comedy, You & Me & Me. https://wp.me/p1x9li-jLH

Screened as part of this year's New York Asian Film Festival

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With fractured timeline, Anocha Suwichakornpong's gorgeous film tells a slight friendship that develops between Ake, a young paralyzed man and his home care male nurse Pun. From what I gather, Ake's from a rich family and Pun is from a countryside. It was an accident that made the young man bed ridden and seems to have attributed to his general somber mood. We see their repetitive days - eating, talking, reading, day after day. Stars born and die just like us humans, even though it takes billions of years. Does our lives really matter? All we can do is live in the present.
Mundane History veers away from expensive philosophizing a la Tree of Life or soapy life affirming movies. There is no eureka moment. It just unhurriedly goes on about making a simple point its own measured, quiet ways. And it's mad affecting. #thaicinema #mundanehistory

W/ the country's train and railway having imbued historical significance, Suwichakornpong's new film charts progress, nature, harkening back to animism, the new generations collective historical amnesia, the country's physical & spiritual transformation in such a mysterious yet seductive manner. #ComeHere is not frustrating- it provides you enough threads, not at all in a teasing way, to decipher & mull over its sinuous connections & implications regarding history and it's thrilling. #thaicinema

Images in #BytheTimeItGetsDark are democratic- whether it's a trashy, seemingly inconsequential pop culture, the serious historical reenactments, Buddhist temple, disco tech & pixelated visual noise have the same value. Tobacco leaves and fungi, to give them meaning & purpose, these layers #AnochaSuwichakornpong presents will need to sit & rot. It's a very Dostoevskian concept. I am just amazed by her wisdom & skills to convey this kind of complicated thoughts through film medium. #thaicinema

W/ his usual languid pace and long takes, Weerasethakul weaves personal memories & a latent political commentary into a gentle contemporary folklore. With its deliberately low-tech filmmaking, Uncle Boonmee playfully alludes to the genre conventions of Thai TV melodramas which the director recalls from his childhood. Memory is an essential theme in his films, informing the storyline as well as his creative process. #thaicinema #uncleboonmeewhocanrecallhispastlives #ApichatpongWeerasethakul

What starts out as a little gay-soldier-in-the-jungle romance, Tropical Malady transforms itself in the midway into a hypnotic tale about transmigration of soul & love story unlike any other. There are also many themes & connections one can find in other Thai master's work here- memories, spirits, animism & nature. Organic, gentle & playful, Tropical Malady really reaffirms Weerasethakul as one of the most original voices in contemporary cinema. #ApichatpongWeerasethakul #thaicinema

Syndromes and a Century (2006) - Weerasethakul
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Oppressed students fed up with authoritarianism in the schools system begin to mount a resistance in Sorayos Prapapan's deadpan satire, Arnold is a Model Student. https://wp.me/p1x9li-hKi

Screened as part of this year's Five Flavours Film Festival and available to stream in Poland until 4th December.

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