Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Memoria brims with ideas of unrelenting brilliance.
Apichatpong (or Joe) uses cinema in the right way, making his films do what, for example, writing can’t: time. The time element is key to inhabiting every shot. The narrative is rooted in place — place here is the main character. In a place like Columbia (or Thailand), where myth permeates the society, doctors and fishmongers being spiritual gurus is totally plausible. (The bit where the doctor says that Xanax stops people from…