MEKONG HOTEL

Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL
  • 2012
  • Special Screenings

Mekong Hotel is a portrait of a hotel near the Mekong River in the north-east of Thailand. The river there marks the border between Thailand and Laos. In the bedrooms and terraces, Apichatpong held a rehearsal with his crew for a movie that he wrote years ago called Ecstasy Garden. The film shuffles different realms, fact and fiction, expressing the bonds between a vampire-like mother and her daughter, the young lovers and the river. Mekong Hotel – since it was shot at the time of the heavy flooding in Thailand – also weaves in layers of demolition, politics, and a drifting dream of the future.

Directed by : Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL
Year of production: 2012
Country: Thailand, United Kingdom
Duration: 61 minutes

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