Mysterious Object at Noon

Mysterious Object at Noon

89 mins | Drama, Documentary, Mystery | Nov. 8, 2000

Apichatpong Weerasethakul brought an appetite for experimen­tation to Thai cinema with his debut feature, an uncategorizable work that refracts documentary impressions of his homeland through the surrealist concept of the exquisite corpse game. Enlisting locals to contribute improvised narration to a simple tale, Apichatpong charts the collective construction of the fiction as each new encounter imbues it with unpredictable shades of fantasy and pathos.

Mysterious Object at Noon

89 mins | Drama, Documentary, Mystery | Nov. 8, 2000

Mysterious Object at Noon
Apichatpong Weerasethakul brought an appetite for experimen­tation to Thai cinema with his debut feature, an uncategorizable work that refracts documentary impressions of his homeland through the surrealist concept of the exquisite corpse game. Enlisting locals to contribute improvised narration to a simple tale, Apichatpong charts the collective construction of the fiction as each new encounter imbues it with unpredictable shades of fantasy and pathos.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Hubert Bals Fund, 9/6 Cinema Factory, Firecracker Film
Original title ดอกฟ้าในมือมาร
Directors Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Writers Apichatpong Weerasethakul