Overview
Release Date:
13 June 2007 (France)
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Plot:
Story about director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's parents who were both doctors, and director's memories about growing up in the hospital environment. |
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Awards:
1 win
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3 nominations
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User Comments:
Interesting but so what
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Also Known As:
Intimacy (International: English title) (working title)
Intimacy and Turbulence (International: English title) (working title)
Syndromes and a Century (International: English title)
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Runtime:
USA:105 min | Argentina:105 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival) | Canada:105 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
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Chosen by "Les Cahiers du cinéma" (France) as one of the 10 best pictures of 2007 (#10, tied with "Ne touchez pas ŕ la hache" and "Hei yan quan")
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While the experiments with memory and non-sequential progress through the film are interesting, my final reaction was so what.
What was Weerasethakul trying to achieve that Resnais had already done far better in L'Année dernière à Marienbad. The formalisms explored through the retelling of stories at a different time and place were intriguing but there were none of the power of the imagery of Marienbad. Images from Marianbad live with me 30+ years later. These ones won't and not only because I'll be dead by then.
It was two hours on the edge of tedium, but the skill was you stayed on the edge not fell into ennui. But I had no sense when I left the cinema that I had had a true aesthetic experience or provided me with images to refract new experiences through.
Maybe hotels do more for me than hospitals, I don't know.