Thailand is a cinematic territory par excellence of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. In “Syndromes and a Century”, the filmmaker seeks to scrutinize the contradictions between an ancient society and the advances of modern medicine. It's not that this duality is the most important thing to discuss, but rather the small minutiae of the characters that live inside this contradiction within the hospitals, with their modern diseases and iconoclastic methods of healing. For the filmmaker, what matters is the human being in its subtle variations of humour, a warm and almost naive cinematic gesture. It is this cinema that seems to vibrate what is deepest in our humanity. (Daniel Ribas) 


THIS FILM WILL BE SCREENED WITH THE FOLLOWING FILM:

The Anthem
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2006, THA, 5', M6