Phlai🗡️

Phlai🗡️

Favorite films

  • Pink Flamingos
  • Santa Sangre
  • Inland Empire
  • Tropical Malady

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  • The Ascent

    ★★★★½

  • Portrait of God

    ★★★½

  • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

    ★★★★

  • Look Back

    ★★★★

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  • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

    Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

    ★★★★

    Love stretches out further beyond the semantic realm, travels across time and space through a metaphysical tube, ushering its honeyed voice into eternity

    As always with Apitchatpong's films, Uncle Boonmee also calls into question the false conceptual duality between human and non-human animals, as well as being and non-being. 

    Perhaps at some point in time, there actually exists a plane where love between a catfish and a princess, or a ghost monkey and a local man is possible. Or rather,…

  • Inland Empire

    Inland Empire

    ★★★★★

    A deranged cinematic asphyxiation.
    In other words I peed myself in ecstasy

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  • Through the Olive Trees

    Through the Olive Trees

    ★★★★

    Through hope and perseverance, life repeats itself ceaselessly, yet each time with a milieu of differences; a rich, long-winded process of difference and repetition that goes beyond any fabricated stories. However, could one also say the same thing for films as well? Of the stark interchangeability between fiction and reality?

    At a plane where creation and life force converge,
    life goes on…

  • Syndromes and a Century

    Syndromes and a Century

    ★★★★

    Man I completely lost it when the old lady pulled out booze from her prosthetic leg

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