The frozen moments of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
From those ones who know nothing about Apichatpong Weerasethakul his last movie could be a good tasting.
The original plot of the movie is from a long movie project about vampires that the director would like to shot in the past and never did. But some of the rehersals and ideas are inside this new film called Mekong Hotel. Maybe nothing seem to happen but we feel. That's what movies use to do. Thrill the people. And Weerasethakul can do it freezing the time in an uncertain moment when the ghosts share talks with people alive. In a moment where love, live, shadows, music, present, past and future meet together.
Some kind of peace invades the spectator who watch how a woman eats something that seem to be guts from the stomach of a girl without being disgusting or strange, when a diegetic sound of a guitar became the soundtrack of a whole story, when a story is composed only from little pieces of life, when this pieces of lives become a movie, when a movie touch the emotions of the public.
Insist, nothing happen, Mekong hotel is a extract of time. The director only pretend to share with his audience an undeterminated moment when ghosts crying to be what they are and the people alive themselves about them ghosts. Maybe it's a part of the Thailand culture that here in Europe can't understand but can feel, because all have their own phantoms like those ones of Mekong River that flows away sometimes, even when the present in name of the future try to keep under the ground.
Those subjects can see it in lots of Weerasethakul works, he is always concerned about the spirits and ghosts who are around the live, around the present. Some kind of memory that the director doesn't want that anybody forgives. And he do it in a very poetical way, moving the spectator to nowhere and no-time, but here, in fact the world where we are living and that is composed from these little discard pieces, these frozen moments that only the greats directors as Weerasethakul are capable tho shot.
Trailer:
MEKONG HOTEL (2012) Excerpt from Richard Lormand on Vimeo.
The original plot of the movie is from a long movie project about vampires that the director would like to shot in the past and never did. But some of the rehersals and ideas are inside this new film called Mekong Hotel. Maybe nothing seem to happen but we feel. That's what movies use to do. Thrill the people. And Weerasethakul can do it freezing the time in an uncertain moment when the ghosts share talks with people alive. In a moment where love, live, shadows, music, present, past and future meet together.
Some kind of peace invades the spectator who watch how a woman eats something that seem to be guts from the stomach of a girl without being disgusting or strange, when a diegetic sound of a guitar became the soundtrack of a whole story, when a story is composed only from little pieces of life, when this pieces of lives become a movie, when a movie touch the emotions of the public.
Insist, nothing happen, Mekong hotel is a extract of time. The director only pretend to share with his audience an undeterminated moment when ghosts crying to be what they are and the people alive themselves about them ghosts. Maybe it's a part of the Thailand culture that here in Europe can't understand but can feel, because all have their own phantoms like those ones of Mekong River that flows away sometimes, even when the present in name of the future try to keep under the ground.
Those subjects can see it in lots of Weerasethakul works, he is always concerned about the spirits and ghosts who are around the live, around the present. Some kind of memory that the director doesn't want that anybody forgives. And he do it in a very poetical way, moving the spectator to nowhere and no-time, but here, in fact the world where we are living and that is composed from these little discard pieces, these frozen moments that only the greats directors as Weerasethakul are capable tho shot.
Trailer:
MEKONG HOTEL (2012) Excerpt from Richard Lormand on Vimeo.
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