Mysterious Object at Noon

Valutazioni e Recensioni

Mahda Purmehdi

What's fascinating about this Exquisite Corpus film is that the game does not stop at taking unexpected turns in terms of narrative, or opening doors from one genre to another, but rather, it sculpts spaces out of each story: spaces that merge into one another. As a result, we have not just a surreal story made up of disparate fragments, but a navigable collage of memories, identities, spaces and sensory experiences.

misu

2021 - MKSC

fluvial

a blurring of the boundary between documentary and fiction; thinking about it, it seems like a specific experience that can only exist in cinema. no one part of in and of itself was really moving, but the whole experience filled me with thought and inspiration. one of only two movies i’ve seen this year that made me want to make a movie. at the very least, i miss shooting on film. humanity doesn’t have to be painful.

Zac Weber

A grainy collage of life in Thailand. Thanks to the immersive sound design, the viewer feels more like an observer who has been transported into the day to day lives of the characters. Unlike anything I have seen before.

丹尼斯

3,5

2666

Ganda n’ong scene kung saan mga mahihiyain at bibong bata na ‘yung nagtuloy ng kuwento/mito/folklore ng pelikula. Kung napanuod ito ni Kiarostami, napangiti kaya siya doon?

Kasra Karbasi

[Revisiting A. W.] Here you can see that Apichat, like every genuine artist, has made the same work of art over and over again all these years. Almost all his other films are present here: the open windows of the hospital in Cemetery..., the ball that the boys plays football with [...Nabua], the thrilling p.o.v of car in a long-take ride [Blissfully...]... and the exact opposite of his late credits trick at the end!

wave of the future

First ~5 mins or so were cool.

Nicole Richie

there are no rules

Bilouaustria

A mysterious object it is, right between fiction and documentary, which i enjoyed above all. Joe has since 2000 almost systematically integrated elements of reality in his work, the hospital for instance is autobiographical and comes in Syndrome and a century, in Cemetary of Splendour etc. The cadavre-exquis is just a reason to travel through Thailand and meet all sorts of people, a McGuffin if you will.

Renton47

On its face you could reduce Object to being an 'exquisite corpse' experiment. It is obvious that AW uses that technique to showcase his love for two things, people and cinema. Though the film had plenty of magic, two moments on the DVD's interview stunned me 1) That travel shots are glorious on film because it echoes stock running through the camera 2) That AW took cinema from being a deity to being his pet

Aardsy

It's about selling fish or something?

Erik F.

I watched this several years ago but can't remember much about it now. Should rewatch.

Mouth Breather

In the final stages of the film, the sense of restlessness within the confines of this narrative that had at the beginning been the motor of the film becomes apparent. Bare life seems to demand to be let out from the story. The children extrapolate wildly; the film itself allows itself to be rattled by them. The story becomes the toy car in the final scene, which is attached to the dog who pulls it onwards blindly.

Aaron C Jones

Wow - this film is audacious. Reminds me a lot of the other one I watched that day — "Close-up" — but through the lens of a whole society [Thailand], whereas Close-up looked through the microscope at one man. Both have their merits (don't wanna make a value judgment on them) but I love the happy coincidence that I watched them on the same day.

Duncan Gray

An audacious feature debut for Apichatpong. It's more fascinating in its concept than in its results, but it hypnotically establishes his trademarks: a dissolution of traditional cinematic narrative, a melding of the mundane with the impossible, and a democratic sense that, whoever the main character is, they are part of a universe that expands beyond the camera in all directions—even outside the material world.

Daniel S.

Interesting but already forgotten, I'm afraid.

lina maj

3.75

Lynch/Fellini

It's always interesting to see a great filmmaker's debut and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's shows a strong sense of atmosphere that he would go on to perfect.

Jason

Not strictly speaking an "experimental film." You would (strictly speaking) have no choice but to call it a "hybrid film." But doubt not, compadre: MYSTERIOUS OBJECT is the product of pure experiment. One imagines that Joe went out in search of something elusive and slightly immaterial. You discover as you go. This is essentially alchemy. Essentially essential alchemy, the film itself the titular object.

-REM-

0.9

Lewis Taylor

Scattered granules of a folk tale delicately, thoughtfully harvested by Apichatpong as he delves into the stories of his fellow countrymen. A new form of cultural transmission emerges between generations, marked by his budding somnolent, magical style.

Ark V

splendidly original weaving of fictumentary film

Levi Miah

This is enigmatically produced with some equally enigmatic content. Stylistically inventive and original, it seems to be a microcosmic representation of folktales and a document of the feelings of these people through storytelling thematics. More layers exist, like Apichatpong's influence on both the fictional and documentary narratives or the included behind-the-scenes-esque shots of himself. Proper meta stuff.