Bath Film Festival 2007

Syndromes and a Century (Sang Sattawat)

Weerasethakul is one of the most extraordinary of modern film directors, and this memory of his childhood in Thailand, in a hospital environment with doctors for parents, displays little interest in conventional narrative, being more of a collection of moments, flashes of visual beauty, and a sense of the timelessness of time. In some ways, this film echoes the quality of Terence Davies’s Distant Voices, Still Lives, as it wanders across the landscape of the past, pausing at seemingly irrelevant moments, which mysteriously says more about the past and about memory than any amount of melodrama. Part of the City of Vienna’s New Crowned Hope commission, celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth. PR

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