Mekong Hotel Reviews
March 3, 2016
Even for a filmmaker who takes pride in scaling the fantastic down to everyday proportions, there's such a thing as going too slight.
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| Original Score: C+
March 2, 2016
Deceptively simple film becomes a strange, meditative look into Thai culture and folklore.
January 28, 2016
Weerasethakul's films have been hailed for their hypnotic mix of natural splendor and supernatural mythology, though this one is a bit lumpy by his standards.
March 13, 2013
Indulges the writer-director's taste for near-catatonic pacing combined with supernatural comings and goings.
January 17, 2013
Apichatpong resists control and eschews close-ups, maintaining as always a Zen-like approach to his material.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
December 6, 2012
Compared with Weerasethakul's acclaimed features, it feels cobbled together and improvised, which for the most part it was.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
October 17, 2012
A tone poem on the theme of "acting out dialogue".
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| Original Score: 8/10
May 20, 2012
It's not painful to endure or anything (in part because it's so short), but to borrow the title of one of last year's celebrated Cannes premieres: This is not a film.
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| Original Score: C
May 18, 2012
Its running time may make it more digestible than some of Weerasethakul's more ambitious pieces, although it straddles the line between full-feature and his short films and experimental work quite beautifully.
May 18, 2012
Miniature rumination on reincarnation and romance overstays its welcome even at 59 minutes.
May 18, 2012
A 59-minute offshoot of a shelved film project, the pic plays like a bonus track to the Thai auteur's Palme d'Or winner, Uncle Boonmee.
May 18, 2012
The ideas here were far more interestingly rehearsed in movies like Tropical Malady and his Palme-winning Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. A diverting footnote to the main body of work, no more than that.
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| Original Score: 3/5