Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s spiritual tale involves soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are transferred to a temporary clinic in a former school. The memory-filled space becomes a revelatory world for housewife and volunteer Jenjira, as she watches over Itt, a handsome soldier with no family visitors. Jen befriends young medium Keng who uses her psychic powers to help loved ones communicate with the comatose men. Doctors explore ways, including...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
“You find yourself moved, even enchanted, by the beautiful, oblique stories unfolding before your eyes… SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY is split in two. The first half takes place at a quiet rural hospital, while the second unfolds at a much larger and more modern urban medical complex… The beauty of the film is an aspect partly of its patient attention to faces, trees, landscapes and architectures, and partly of the subtle precision of the camera movements…...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
TROPICAL MALADY is the lyrical and mysterious new film by maverick Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Blissfully Yours), one of the most prominent young directors of the Thai New Wave. Tropical Malady chronicles the mystical love affair between a young soldier and the country boy he seduces, soon to be disrupted by the boy’s sudden disappearance. Local legends claim the boy was transformed into a mythic wild beast, and the soldier journeys...