100
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Weerasethakul's latest has received mixed responses on the film-festival circuit, yet while it's anything but commercial, it's also anything but unadventurous.
Tropical Malady (สัตว์ประหลาด)
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- Thailand,
- France,
- Germany,
- Italy
- 2004
- · 114m
Director
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Cast
Banlop Lomnoi,
Sakda Kaewbuadee,
Huai Dessom,
Sirivech Jareonchon,
Udom Promma
Genre
Drama,
Romance,
Fantasy
A romance between a soldier and country boy splinters into a mythical venture based on Thai folklore.
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What are critics saying?
100
San Francisco Chronicle by G. Allen Johnson
An entirely unconventional, hypnotic, meandering film.
91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker
A film more textural than narrative, it's for viewers willing to lose themselves in a truly sensual jungle experience.
90
Chicago Reader
A spellbinding, beautiful, enigmatic film with a mysterious, allusive two-part structure.
90
Chicago Reader by Patrick Z. McGavin
A spellbinding, beautiful, enigmatic film with a mysterious, allusive two-part structure.
88
New York Post by V.A. Musetto
If you enjoy intelligent, challenging filmmaking, Tropical Malady is for you.
80
TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox
"All of us are by nature wild beasts. We must be like animal trainers and teach ourselves tricks alien to our bestiality." Cutting-edge Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul uses this quote from the novelist Ton Nakajima to introduce his entrancing third feature.
80
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
Shows a young filmmaker pushing at the limits of cinematic narrative with grace and a certain amount of puckish willfulness.
80
Village Voice by Dennis Lim
Like "Blissfully Yours" and Apichatpong's first feature, the exquisite-corpse road movie "Mysterious Object at Noon" (2000), Tropical Malady promotes new ways of seeing.
80
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Mysterious and original.
75
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
This challenging, inventive movie from Thailand is not for everyone.
75
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
It took me two viewings to enjoy the landscape of Weerasethakul's mysterious jungle -- so very thick, steamy, and foreign -- without wishing for clearer trail markers.
60
Variety by Deborah Young
Takes the viewer on a mysterious and sporadically fascinating trip into the darkness of the human heart and Thai legend.
40
The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt
Certainly for most audiences the viewing experience will prove not only tedious but bewildering.
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