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"Like dreaming with your eyes wide open." – Hollywood Reporter
Lonely housewife Jenjira volunteers at a makeshift hospital for soldiers suffering from a mysterious bout of narcolepsy. When one of her bedridden charges captures her attention, she enlists a medium to commune with his sleeping spirit. In a hallucinatory bond between the two women, the pain of times gone by combines with the reality of the present.
In his first full-length feature since Palme d'Or winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (MIFF 2010), Apichatpong Weerasethakul returns with a meditative and mythic rumination on the state of his nation, as set in his home town, infused with his childhood memories and enacted with his trademark serenity and patience.
"You can almost feel the heart of the filmmaker beating as you watch this movie that neither sleeps nor wakes, but exists so achingly, humbly and splendidly." – Movie Mezzanine