By the Time It Gets Dark

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By the Time It Gets Dark

2016

1h 45m

Drama

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21 Reviews

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50+ Ratings

A young film director researches a project about the 1976 massacre of Thai student activists at Thammasat University in Bangkok.

Mark Kermode

Observer (UK)

It's an intoxicating cocktail, with bursts of time-travelling song breaking through the underlying thrum of insect life, leading towards a trance-dance finale that left my head spinning.

Rated: 4/5

Dec 27, 2017

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

History has seldom seemed more challenging. And history on film is a hiding to nothing.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 29, 2017

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Eve Watling

Little White Lies

This dreamlike journey into the imagination is never predictable.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 19, 2017

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Dustin Chang

Floating World

Dostoevskian concept- like a tobacco leaves and fungi, to give them meaning and purpose, these layers Suwichakornpong presents will need to sit and rot. I am just amazed by her wisdom & skills to convey this kind of complicated thoughts through film.

Jan 22, 2025

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Miguel Martín Maestro

El antepenúltimo mohicano

Cryptic in many of its proposals, but very bright and very exciting in its answers. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 4/5

Aug 3, 2020

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Andrew Wright

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

Anocha Suwichakornpong's WTF tone poem of a film casts a bewitching spell, even/especially as it periodically reinvents itself. Intriguing and severely beautiful throughout, even during those moments when it seems like logic has taken a flyer.

Dec 27, 2017

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Synopsis

A young film director researches a project about the 1976 massacre of Thai student activists at Thammasat University in Bangkok.

Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong
Producer: Lee Chatametikool, Benjawan Somsin, Soros Sukhum, Anocha Suwichakornpong
Screenwriter: Anocha Suwichakornpong
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Thai
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 10, 2017
Runtime: 1h 45m

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