Cinemas, cavemen and a missing woman all form parts of the plot in this surreal sojourn between the real and spiritual worlds
It is the Buddhist year 2562 (or 2019 in the Gregorian calendar), and this probing, experimental and collaborative film by Ben Rivers and Anocha Suwichakornpong follows its nose around the coastal province of Krabi in southern Thailand, a big tourist attraction since the release of The Beach in 2000, shot on the Phi Phi Islands there. It is a kind of docu-fiction essay, using non-professionals, with a discreet but pointed sense of the supernatural, in the style of the Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
An elegant woman (Siraphan Wattanajinda), describing herself variously as a market researcher and a movie location scout, asks local guide (Primrin Puarat) to show her around the tourist spots, such as the Phra Nang cave, a place reputed to aid fertility. She also goes to the disused movie...
It is the Buddhist year 2562 (or 2019 in the Gregorian calendar), and this probing, experimental and collaborative film by Ben Rivers and Anocha Suwichakornpong follows its nose around the coastal province of Krabi in southern Thailand, a big tourist attraction since the release of The Beach in 2000, shot on the Phi Phi Islands there. It is a kind of docu-fiction essay, using non-professionals, with a discreet but pointed sense of the supernatural, in the style of the Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
An elegant woman (Siraphan Wattanajinda), describing herself variously as a market researcher and a movie location scout, asks local guide (Primrin Puarat) to show her around the tourist spots, such as the Phra Nang cave, a place reputed to aid fertility. She also goes to the disused movie...
- 5/27/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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