It gently and often imperceptibly shifts between past and present, legend and modernity, wakefulness and reverie.
Weerasethakul’s films have always been marked by their tenderness, unobtrusive rigor, and desire to splice the straightforward with the oblique.
Here are some more adjectives you can add to the disc’s cover art: beautiful, elegiac, profound, and mythical.
Both love story and folk tale, Tropical Malady intersects eros with cultural traditions.