Mekong Hotel (2012)

Name: Mekong Hotel (2012)
Genre: Drama
Released: March 4, 2016
Duration: 61 min
Rating: 57

2016

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: March 4, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: Shifting between fact and fiction in a hotel situated along the Mekong River, a filmmaker rehearses a movie expressing the bonds between a vampiric mother and daughter.

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 61 min

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Maggie Lee

Jan 28, 2016

The pic plays like a bonus track to the Thai auteur’s Palme d’Or winner, “Uncle Boomee Who Can Recall His Past Lives,” its esoteric symbiosis of Thai folk culture, spiritualism and current sociopolitical conditions simplified, but no less mystifying. Read full review

Fionnuala Halligan

Jan 28, 2016

Its running time may make it more digestible than some of Weerasethakul’s more ambitious pieces, although it straddles the line between full-feature and his short films and experimental work quite beautifully. Read full review

Jeff Shannon

Jul 19, 2017

Compared with Weerasethakul’s acclaimed features, it feels cobbled together and improvised, which for the most part it was. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Jan 28, 2016

The ideas here were far more interestingly rehearsed in movies like Tropical Malady and his Palme-winning Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. A diverting footnote to the main body of work, no more than that. Read full review

A.A. Dowd

Mar 3, 2016

For the most part, though, this hour-long curiosity feels like a fans-only doodle, riffing on motifs Joe has done better elsewhere. Even for a filmmaker who takes pride in scaling the fantastic down to everyday proportions, there’s such a thing as going too slight. Read full review

Neil Young

Jan 28, 2016

It's clear that Weerasethakul is even less concerned with conventional narrative considerations here than he was in the free-rangingly imaginative Uncle Boonmee. Read full review

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Apr 30, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ridiculously beautiful, poignant film. It deserves credit for both being a calming and serene experience and featuring a scene of a guy's exposed innards.… Expand

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