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The delicately poetic second feature by Thai director Anocha Suwichakornpong weaves together multiple stories and characters to create a portrait of a beautiful country haunted by the lingering trauma of the 1976 government-sanctioned massacre of student demonstrators in Bangkok. A shape-shifting narrative around memory, politics and cinema, the film weaves together the stories of several characters. We meet a young waitress serving breakfast at an idyllic country café, only to later find her employed in the busy dining room of a river cruise ship. And we meet a filmmaker interviewing an older woman whose life was transformed by the political activism of her student years and the Thammasat University massacre of 1976. With her tender, unobtrusive filmmaking style, Suwichakornpong allows us to get to know these characters slowly and deeply. At the same time, we see how their beautiful country and its troubled history inform their actions and identities in ways both overt and subtle.

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• Winner of 10 Awards and Nominated for 14 more, including Best Film and Director
• Certified Fresh with 90% Tomatometer Score on Rotten Tomatoes
• For fans of NORWEGIAN WOOD, UNCLE BOONMEE, and EAT, PRAY, LOVE

Press Quotes

It's an intoxicating cocktail, with bursts of time-travelling song breaking through the underlying thrum of insect life, leading towards a trance-dance finale that left my head spinning

     —Mark Kermode, Observer

Casts a bewitching spell, even/especially as it periodically reinvents itself. Intriguing and severely beautiful throughout

     —Andrew Wright, The Stranger

By The Time It Gets Dark is a cinematic classic that will beg to be watched, decided and marveled at, time and time again

     —Lee Ashworth, Film Inquiry