You might think that Apichatpong Weerasthetakul couldn’t pull many more changes on his favoured binary two-part narrative structure (see Blissfully Yours and Tropical Malady) but I’m inclined to call this calm, peaceful, beautiful work his best film to date. Marrying (like Jia Zhangke, the other great contemporary Asian director) formalist compositions with a documentary impulse (I love the open-air aerobics ending, if only because I’ve seen this so many times myself in small-town Thailand)the film leaves you with an exquisite sense of the subtleties, the surprises, the randomness, and the utter mysteriousness of life.
by Ian Johnston | Source: 35mm
11 Dec 2006 12:24 PM | Submit Comment
