Sang sattawat 2006

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: There's nothing here that resembles narrative urgency, but this is a quiet masterpiece, delicate and full of wonder. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: This film is alive to the small pleasures of watching people interact -- or fail to. Its individual sequences spin along, lovely and mesmerizing, and they're not really all that hard to understand, in and of themselves. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: His fifth feature, Syndromes and a Century, might be [the director's] most purely intoxicating. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: A challenging, invigorating whiff of the magical properties of sensual cinema. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: You have to abandon any preconceived notions about movies and allow your mind to be seduced by the mystifying, occasionally humorous world of a one-of-a-kind filmmaker. You might even find yourself becoming a fan. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Syndromes and a Century is beguiling and confounding, and I hope to see it again soon: When I do, I suspect I'll understand it even less and yet love it more. Read more

Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: The latest daydreamy film from this Thai auteur of languor is fragrant with tender love and sly humor. Read more

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Ben Walters, Time Out: Typically slow, sensuous, mystifying and often mesmerising. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Its rhymes and echoes make its folds endlessly fascinating. Read more

Leslie Felperin, Variety: Sporadically mesmerizing imagery and a miasma-like atmosphere but only fits and starts in the way of plot. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Are these parallel tales a Buddhist romance? An attempt to induce something like 3-D narrative depth? A consideration of repetitive human activity over the course of a lifetime? You might as well ask why the breeze is rustling the leaves. Read more