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MEKONG HOTEL (Past Film)
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Completed - Drama - 57 minutes

Year of production : 2012

Director(s) : Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL
Writer(s) : Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL
Producer(s) : Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL (Kick The Machine Films), Simon FIELD (Illuminations Films), Keith Griffiths GRIFFITHS (Illuminations Films)

Synopsis

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.

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Country(ies) : THAILAND

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