Quite interesting images from
Mekong Hotel, an upcoming
Apichatpong Weerasethakul‘s movie which will screen on the Croisette next week.
Weerasethakul is no stranger to
Cannes – actually he won Palme d'Or for his 2000 film
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, so I guess that we're all a little bit surprised to hear that this time his new movie is attached to a
Special Screening Category, and not – In Competition.
Mekong Hotel is actually is a portrait of a hotel near the Mekong River in the north-east of Thailand. The river there marks the border between Thailand and Laos. In the bedrooms and terraces, Apichatpong held a rehearsal with his crew for a movie that he wrote years ago called Ecstasy Garden.
The film shuffles different realms, fact and fiction, expressing the bonds between a vampire-like mother and her daughter, the young lovers and the river. Mekong Hotel – since it was shot at the time of the heavy flooding in Thailand – also weaves in layers of demolition, politics, and a drifting dream of the future.
But if you're confused with this synopsis part, I will just remind you that director previously explained that Mekong Hotel “…is definitely not going to be a film that will just have a foreign movie star for the sake of it. It's going to be an exchange of ideas, of images, of … I don't know. It's like a game for me: the river, the pigs and Tilda Swinton.”
The river, the pigs and… Tilda Swinton?
Count us in!
Quite interesting images from Mekong Hotel, an upcoming Apichatpong Weerasethakul‘s movie which will screen on the Croisette next week.
Weerasethakul is no stranger to Cannes – actually he won Palme d'Or for his 2000 film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, so I guess that we're all a little bit surprised to hear that this time his new movie is attached to a Special Screening Category, and not – In Competition.
Mekong Hotel is actually is a portrait of a hotel near the Mekong River in the north-east of Thailand. The river there marks the border between Thailand and Laos. In the bedrooms and terraces, Apichatpong held a rehearsal with his crew for a movie that he wrote years ago called Ecstasy Garden.
The film shuffles different realms, fact and fiction, expressing the bonds between a vampire-like mother and her daughter, the young lovers and the river. Mekong Hotel – since it was shot at the time of the heavy flooding in Thailand – also weaves in layers of demolition, politics, and a drifting dream of the future.
But if you're confused with this synopsis part, I will just remind you that director previously explained that Mekong Hotel “…is definitely not going to be a film that will just have a foreign movie star for the sake of it. It's going to be an exchange of ideas, of images, of … I don't know. It's like a game for me: the river, the pigs and Tilda Swinton.”
The river, the pigs and… Tilda Swinton?
Count us in!
