Concrete Clouds
classified 15 SPlease note: This was screened in July 2015
Apitchatpong Weerasethakul's editor Lee Chatametikool (who will be here for a Q&A after the Sat 27 June screening) makes his directorial debut with this inventive, transcendentally sweet romance. It's 1997 and Bangkok is in the grip of the Asian financial crisis. Mutt (Ananda Everingham), a currency trader in New York, has made a hasty trip home after his father commits suicide. Following the funeral, he rekindles a relationship from his school days, while his younger brother falls in love with a woman who has drifted into prostitution.
While the uncertainty the financial crisis has brought looms over the city, both relationships face pressure, complicated by time, circumstance and memory. As they drift between the past and the present, between dreams and reality, their only escape is in a collage of love songs, music videos and recorded memories. But can these alone hold them together in the face of reality?