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This Thai experimental film from Anocha Suwichakornpong is a surreal meditation on the passage of time and the quest for...
This Thai experimental film from Anocha Suwichakornpong is a surreal meditation on the passage of time and the quest for truth.
"Ann is a filmmaker attempting to dramatise the 1976 military clampdown that still resonates powerfully in the collective Thai consciousness. Struggling to capture the truth, Ann's mind begins to wander in visually arresting and intellectually stimulating directions. Her dream of a hallucinatory experience in a forest initiates a hypnotic stream of consciousness, in which characters change appearances and scenes are replayed from radically different perspectives. This magical mystery tour into memory and perception is brilliantly edited and superbly photographed" (Sydney Film Festival)
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90 %21 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
33 %67 reviewsAudience score rating
"You could be forgiven for thinking that while all this is going on, nothing at all seems to happen - it's a film, a rather gorgeous one, of glances and ephemera and delicate metaphors."
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Village Voice
Village Voice""By the Time It Gets Dark" has clearly been thought through, but it's so cryptic that it cries out for, if not perfect explanations, perhaps footnotes. It's so conceptual that it offers little for those not in sync."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"By the Time It Gets Dark is a magical, melancholic ode to the intellectual's struggle against the forces of history."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterBy The Time It Gets Dark | Details
- Runtime
- 105
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- Thailand, France, Qatar, Netherlands
