2009 · drama · thai
Mundane History
Directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong1h 22m2009
A friendship develops between a young paralysed man from a wealthy Bangkok family and his male nurse from Isan in the North of Thailand.
Our read: Mundane History (2009) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, surreal drama · thai entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, gentle drama / thai, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- inventive
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