World Cinema Project 2: Criterion Blu-ray review
Criterion’s World Cinema Project 2 box set opens windows on a number of unfamiliar national cinemas with an eclectic selection of six distinctive […]
Review: Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Cast: Somsri Pinyopol, Duangjai Hiransri, To Hanudomlapr, Kannikar Narong,
Somsri Pinyopol
Duangjai Hiransri
To Hanudomlapr
Kannikar Narong
Plot: Apichatpong Weerasethakul brought an appetite for experimentation to Thai cinema with his debut feature, an uncategorizable work that refracts documentary impressions of his homeland through the surrealist concept of the exquisite corpse game. Enlisting locals to contribute improvised narration to a simple tale, Apichatpong charts the collective construction of the fiction as each new encounter imbues it with unpredictable shades of fantasy and pathos.
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