Far from an empty vessel, the film encourages an ever increasing proliferation of odd topics and perspectives.
Mysterious Object at Noon(ดอกฟ้าในมือมาร)
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Thailand, Netherlands · 2000
1h 29m
Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Starring Somsri Pinyopol, Duangjai Hiransri, To Hanudomlapr, Kannikar Narong
Genre Documentary, Drama
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In this unscripted film, the crew set out on a journey across Thailand, bringing with them a simple tale. They interview Thai people along the way, asking them to add their own narration. The improvised story is performed by non-professional actors and displayed alongside the interviews, challenging the boundaries between reality and imagination.
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So many thematic and tonal elements of Weerasethakul's later, more celebrated films, are evident in Mysterious Object at Noon that it would be easy to consider as a formative exercise alone, but even as he began to explore these fertile soils, he was creating a work of captivating and arresting beauty.
Result is a weird hodgepodge that has the audience doing mental somersaults in an attempt to keep up with this highly original festival head-scratcher.
The New York Times by Elvis Mitchell
Mr. Weerasethakul's film is like a piece of chamber music slowly, deftly expanding into a full symphonic movement; to watch it is to enter a fugue state that has the music and rhythms of another culture.
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Experimental films are frequently criticized for being boring because they say and do too little, but the best of them put us in exhilarating overdrive because they offer too much.
Weerasethakul mixes fact, fiction and filmmaking into a blend that's intriguingly obtuse, yet surprisingly revelatory.
All of this free association falls under the wide umbrella of "experimental" cinema, meaning that the often flagging pace and incoherent stretches are balanced by sublime moments of inspiration.
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