Compared with Weerasethakul’s acclaimed features, it feels cobbled together and improvised, which for the most part it was.
Mekong Hotel(แม่โขงโฮเต็ล)
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Thailand, United Kingdom · 2012
1h 1m
Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Starring Jenjira Pongpas, Maiyatan Techaparn, Sakda Kaewbuadee, Chai Bhatana
Genre Drama
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Shifting between fact and fiction in a hotel situated along the Mekong River, a filmmaker rehearses a movie expressing the bonds between a vampire-like mother and daughter...
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For the most part, though, this hour-long curiosity feels like a fans-only doodle, riffing on motifs Joe has done better elsewhere. Even for a filmmaker who takes pride in scaling the fantastic down to everyday proportions, there’s such a thing as going too slight.
Screen International by Fionnuala Halligan
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.
The pic plays like a bonus track to the Thai auteur’s Palme d’Or winner, “Uncle Boomee Who Can Recall His Past Lives,” its esoteric symbiosis of Thai folk culture, spiritualism and current sociopolitical conditions simplified, but no less mystifying.
The Hollywood Reporter by Neil Young
It's clear that Weerasethakul is even less concerned with conventional narrative considerations here than he was in the free-rangingly imaginative Uncle Boonmee.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
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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