Krabi, 2562

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Krabi, 2562

2019

1h 34m

Documentary

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Krabi, 2562 explores the landscape and stories within the community of Krabi, Southern Thailand. A major tourist destination in Thailand, the filmmakers want to capture the town in this specific moment where the pre-historic, the more recent past and the contemporary world collide, sometimes uneasily.

Danny Leigh

Financial Times

Don't come expecting the film's 16mm shards to cohere into a conventional plot, and the see-saw between fiction and reality might cast a woozy spell of its own.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 3, 2020

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Sophie Monks Kaufman

Empire Magazine

This patchy paean to a specific place is by turns sumptuous and stagnant, and is most effective in the simple things it does well, such as capturing the glories of nature.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 3, 2020

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David Jenkins

Little White Lies

Sticks with you like a vivid, highly symbolic and occasionally amusing dream.

Rated: 4/5

May 28, 2020

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Lawrence Garcia

In Review Online

Intentional incoherence is always something of a dubious proposition, but even if Krabi, 2562 fails to convince by the end, the argument, at least, is worth engaging with.

Jul 28, 2021

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Dustin Chang

Floating World

Rivers and Suwichakornpong are less interested who is exploiting who, but the delicate dance that is human existence between real and imagined world both in physical and spiritual sense.

Jul 25, 2021

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Phoebe Campion

Another Gaze

Through its meditative exploration of landscape as locus for mystery, memory and deep time, KRABI subtly unsettles the forms and intentions of ethnographic documentary and cinematic 'recovery...'

Jun 29, 2020

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Synopsis

Krabi, 2562 explores the landscape and stories within the community of Krabi, Southern Thailand. A major tourist destination in Thailand, the filmmakers want to capture the town in this specific moment where the pre-historic, the more recent past and the contemporary world collide, sometimes uneasily.

Director: Ben Rivers, Anocha Suwichakornpong
Producer: Maenum Chagasik
Production Co: Electric Eel Films
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: Thai
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 30, 2021
Runtime: 1h 34m