Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) is playing January 2 - 31, 2017 in the United Kingdom.“My story is not really connected. I just made it up in an instant.”—Mysterious Object at Noon “Too much like a game. You should at least have a script.”—Mysterious Object at NoonOnce upon a time, dot dot dot. As beginnings go, the silent cinema-style intertitle that opens Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s debut feature, Mysterious Object at Noon, is especially apposite. In terms of both action and theme, the ellipsis is everything: its promise of adventure structures our suspension of disbelief into the very premise of the film. Go with this, it suggests. Or come. The fiction into which it accelerates us is simultaneously one that has already happened and one we have yet to hear. Mixed tenses, and tensions, abound: we fluctuate,...
- 1/5/2017
- MUBI
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