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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
It shares the unhurried, porous feeling of memory and place: ordinary domestic life gently accommodates spirits, reincarnation, and the strange without forcing explanations.
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Why this pick
A quiet hospital setting, drifting sleep, and subtle political echoes make this especially close in mood—patient, luminous, humorous, and attuned to what remains unspoken.
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Why this pick
Against a landscape being physically transformed, its understated encounters and deadpan surreal touches echo the original’s interest in change, displacement, and resilient everyday life.
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Why this pick
Nearly wordless and built from recurring labor, it turns ritual and environment into emotional rhythm—an austere, immersive counterpart to the contemplative repetitions of the Thai film.
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01 / THE STORY
The film is a tribute to the director's parents and is divided into two parts, with the characters and dialogue in the second half essentially the same as the first, but the settings and outcome of the stories different. The first part is set in a hospital in rural Thailand, while the second half is set in a Bangkok medical center. "The film is about transformation, about how people transform themselves for the better", Apichatpong said in an interview. In Thailand, Syndromes and a Century became controversial after the Board of Censors demanded that four scenes be cut in order for the film to be shown commercially. The director refused to cut the film and withdrew it from domestic release. Since then, the director had agreed to a limited showing in Thailand where the cut scenes were replaced with a black screen to protest and inform the public about the issues of censorship. The film was among the works commissioned for Peter Sellars' New Crowned Hope festival in Vienna to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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