Thailand
- French Premiere
Dogfar nai mae marn
(Mysterious Object at Noon)
Weerasethakul and his crew travel through Thailand from north to south,
stopping here and there at anonymous places. In the different villages
and towns they pass through, the director has local people continue
the story of an handicapped boy and his teacher: he has told them
the first part.
Among the storytellers are food merchants, a boxer addicted to television,
a devout female police officer, and a lonely rubber-tree peeler. The
locals are allowed to speak in their own words, using their own imaginations;
in fact, they have total freedom. They can make changes to the story,
go back to any previous point in the narrative, or have their lines
simply continue the plot in a more logical way. What emerges is an
imaginative, episodic fantasy in which the mysterious soon takes over.
At the same time, in several shots Weerasethakul sketches suggestive
smaller narratives from the private lives of his characters. He shows
them in their daily lives, yet with a keen eye for the resilience
and creativity with which they live out their individual fates. The
more people they portrayed, the more complex the general narrative
becomes, and the borderlines between fact and fiction evaporate.
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| Director |
Apichatpong
Weerasethakul |
| Original
Version |
Thai |
| Subtitles
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English |
| Photography
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Prasong
Klinborrom |
| Sound |
Sirote
Tulsook, Paisit Phanprucksachat, Teekadech Vatcharatanin |
| Editing |
Apichatpong
Weerasethakul |
| Production |
Firecracker
Film Co Ltd, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Mingmongkol Sonakui |
| Distribution |
Firecracker Film Co Ltd, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Mingmongkol
Sonakui |
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