Mekong Hotel (Weerasethakul, 2012): Close-Up Cinema, 8.15pm
This film is showing as part of the Deviant Traditions of Desire: Asian Cinema at the Intersection of Folklore and Transgressive Desire season at Close-Up Cinema.
Close-Up Cinema introduction:
At once the portrait of a landmark and a poem of liminality, Mekong Hotel
is, eponymously, set in a hotel overlooking the Mekong river. The river
lies on the border of Thailand and Laos, once flooded with civil war
refugees, now submerged in talks about floods in faraway Bangkok. In
bedrooms and terraces, the actors play out scenes from a script about
reincarnated lovers and folk spirits, reflecting on their worlds both as
characters and performers. The film blends fact and fiction, spirits
and humans, a flesh-eating ghost mother and her daughter, young lovers
and the river, gently weaving together waves of demolition, politics,
and a floating desire of the future. Using characters constantly
transitioning between the real and unreal, Apichatpong contemplatively
embraces the liminal, and reconstructs the dreams and darkest desires of
a civilisation and its future.
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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