Manta Ray (2018)
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Warm, lush and topical human drama.
This superficially simple tale of identity, displacement and friendship is wrapped in layers of symbolism that will likely be pleasurably hypnotic for many viewers.
The explanatory scenes ballast the experiment a bit but, even so, Manta Ray, in its best moments, retains an unusual strength, a sometimes hypnotic, always hallucinatory, visual power. [Full review in Spanish]
Aroonpheng's great achievement is to convey a sense of humanist outrage while telling an involving, sometimes headily perplexing story in a magical realist register.
As Aroonpheng slowly but surely breaks our hearts across his measured 105-minute running time, he also shows that you don't need water to find yourself drowning.
Aroonpheng's background as a cinematographer and painter is clearly in evidence in the film, which is a visual feast whose striking images are serene while in continuous motion-like water rippling in a canal.
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