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Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)

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An adventurous experiment in cinematic storytelling, this low-budget independent Thai feature is structured like the Surrealist idea of the "exquisite corpse." One person begins a story, and a succession of others continue it in whatever way they see fit. Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul gleans his participants from all over the Thai countryside. The story, begun by a young woman with a personal history harrowing enough for its own movie, concerns a wheelchair-bound boy and his enigmatic tutor

Jan 21, 2003

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... it's wonderfully different from any American film...

October 4, 2007 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

This masterpiece from new Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul blends fiction and nonfiction into a form of cinema previously forged by Hou Hsiao-hsien and Abbas Kiarostami.

March 1, 2004 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Combustible Celluloid

Mysterious Object at Noon is fascinating not for its conclusiveness (which it inevitably lacks) but its construction. It is a film made with little domestic influence, austere in its appearance and unique in its form.

March 18, 2003 Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Not Coming to a Theater Near You

This masterpiece from new Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul blends fiction and nonfiction into a form of cinema previously forged by Hou Hsiao-hsien and Abbas Kiarostami.

March 2, 2003
San Francisco Examiner

What the hell?

December 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com
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Audience Reviews for Mysterious Object at Noon

I am half Thai and adopted from Thailand at the age of four. The impressions that I have stored in my memory have not much to do with the tourist brochures. I never understood the Thai culture nor ever had the desire to explore. With artists like this coming out of this country, however, I am finally interested.
May 22, 2006
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An experimental film in the tradition of exquisite corpse (google it).. remarkably little goes on, and yet a perception of Thailand emerges.. I think this guy is great. A real artist.
April 15, 2012
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Foreign Titles

  • Mysterious Object at Noon (Dokfa nai meuman) (DE)
  • Mysterious Object at Noon (Dokfa nai meuman) (UK)
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