Mekong Hotel
First screened in October 2012
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Cast: Sakda Kaewbuadee, Maiyatan Techaparn, Jenjira Pongpas, Chai Bhatana, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Chatchai Suban.
Screenplay: Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Twitter Capsule:
Clearly minor, but Joe has a lovely feel for laconic bonhomie, even in the face of disaster. Or of cannibal ghosts.
VOR:③
Took four years to receive a nominal U.S. release: proof of atrophied film culture but also of the film being marginal by design. Merits inquisitive study.
