Mekong Hotel

Thailand

Another attempt at weirdness filmmaking by the auteur with the unpronounceable name who gave us Uncle Boonmee, Syndromes, Tropical Malady. This one was a huge improvement on the others because it was much shorter...only 56 minutes or so. It was as opaque as the others, as slow and apparently pointless: the last five minutes was a static shot of some people playing with watercraft in the far distance on the titular river.

For some mysterious reason this guy and his films have struck a chord with the international cineaste elite. God knows why...I think his films are stupid and boring. But that's just me...

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