Mekong Hotel (2012)
Strand Releasing | Release Date: March 4, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganJan 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
70
VarietyMaggie LeeJan 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
63
The Seattle TimesJeff ShannonJul 19, 2017
Compared with Weerasethakul’s acclaimed features, it feels cobbled together and improvised, which for the most part it was. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawJan 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
58
The A.V. ClubA.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
40
The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungJan 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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