Information, context and mystery have been on my mind quite a bit since seeing the two new films that Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul brought to this year’s Cannes: his feature-length, Tilda Swinton-starring, Colombia-set Memoria, and the 13-minute “Night Colonies,” the segment that concludes The Year of the Everlasting Storm omnibus project, which collects seven short films about creativity in the time of Covid-19 from global arthouse heavyweights such as Jafar Panahi, Dominga Sotomayor and David Lowery.
This is partly because Weerasethakul’s new films, like the rest of his cinema, negotiate the divide between our sensory and cognitive functions better than […]The post Cannes Film Festival 2021 Critic’s Notebook 5: Apichatpong Weerasethakul first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
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