The talented Aditya Assarat shows his connection to the rhythms of life in this plotless piece about a drifting actor
Aditya Assarat is the Thai writer-director who caught eyes back in 2007 with his quietly stirring debut, Wonderful Town, about an architect dispatched to a region flattened by the Asian tsunami. His third feature – its title is short for "high society" – returns to similar terrain, watching discreetly as a drifting actor (Ananda Everingham) splits with his model girlfriend (Cerise Leang) while filming in a desolated coastal resort. Assarat shares Apichatpong Weerasethakul's ability to conjure delicate moods and memories, but his interests reside in the concrete, rather than spiritual: the semi-demolished apartment block the actor retreats to becomes a particular source of fascination. It's almost gallery-like in its resistance to urgent narrative drives – anyone who finds Sofia Coppola movies wispy should stay clear. Yet if life, as they say, moves on,...
Aditya Assarat is the Thai writer-director who caught eyes back in 2007 with his quietly stirring debut, Wonderful Town, about an architect dispatched to a region flattened by the Asian tsunami. His third feature – its title is short for "high society" – returns to similar terrain, watching discreetly as a drifting actor (Ananda Everingham) splits with his model girlfriend (Cerise Leang) while filming in a desolated coastal resort. Assarat shares Apichatpong Weerasethakul's ability to conjure delicate moods and memories, but his interests reside in the concrete, rather than spiritual: the semi-demolished apartment block the actor retreats to becomes a particular source of fascination. It's almost gallery-like in its resistance to urgent narrative drives – anyone who finds Sofia Coppola movies wispy should stay clear. Yet if life, as they say, moves on,...
- 3/1/2013
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
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