something intoxicating about the way this film threads the politics of fantasy, of the illusion of coming so close to the realisation of material dreams and the self-delusion required to sustain it, of the slippage between desire, affection, and transaction. felt like 3 films deftly woven into one and the gear shift into the manic uncut gems second act from the fantastical haze of the first was unsurprising yet momentarily disorienting. one wonders, amid the versatility of mikey madison in…

The Mekong River is long. It begins at the Tibetan Plateau and flows through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia, before emptying out into the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. The river is rich in aquatic biodiversity, and it provides fecund support for fisheries and agriculture across mainland Southeast Asia. Damming upstream has hindered the flow of the river, but it continues to sustain communities along the peninsula. This agglomeration of meanings, it would seem, allows us to understand the river…