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A group of soldiers in a small town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand are struck with a bizarre sleeping illness.A group of soldiers in a small town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand are struck with a bizarre sleeping illness.A group of soldiers in a small town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand are struck with a bizarre sleeping illness.
- Awards
- 7 wins & 17 nominations
Jenjira Pongpas
- Jenjira
- (as Jenjira Pongpas Widner)
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- Writer
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- GoofsWhen Itt and Jenjira are eating dinner in the city, several bystanders are seen looking and pointing at the crew.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Story of Film: A New Generation (2021)
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In Thailand, an elementary school has been turned into a clinic to care for soldiers suffering from a mysterious sudden sleeping sickness. Jenjira is a housewife volunteer at the clinic. She takes more interest in one particular patient Itt. Whenever he wakes, she befriends him. Others claim the school was built on an ancient Royal cemetery and the soldier's energy are being drained to fight battles in the other world. Jenjira befriends medium Keng who claims to be able to be possessed by the comatose men.
The camera style is very static. The camera is set up in one position and the scene unfolds without any edits. These scenes last as long as a minute or two. It has a hypnotic feel at first but it does get boring after awhile. The central mystery keeps one's interest but it gets more and more perplexing. It becomes an exercise in surreal storytelling. There are some head-scratching things going on and sometimes I wonder if they are dreams. Also why are they digging up the field? It would be more compelling if the visuals could be more surreal. They need to be more imaginative and crazier. The movie needs to explain better or be completely inexplicable.
The camera style is very static. The camera is set up in one position and the scene unfolds without any edits. These scenes last as long as a minute or two. It has a hypnotic feel at first but it does get boring after awhile. The central mystery keeps one's interest but it gets more and more perplexing. It becomes an exercise in surreal storytelling. There are some head-scratching things going on and sometimes I wonder if they are dreams. Also why are they digging up the field? It would be more compelling if the visuals could be more surreal. They need to be more imaginative and crazier. The movie needs to explain better or be completely inexplicable.
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- Dec 18, 2016
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- Also known as
- Cemetery of Splendour
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $51,950
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $7,780
- Mar 6, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $98,932
- Runtime2 hours 2 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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