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MEKONG HOTEL

By Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL

Drama - Completed 2012

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- THAILAND
- Duration
- 57 mn
- Director(s)
- Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL
- Writer(s)
- Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL
- Producer(s)
- Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL (Kick The Machine Films), Simon FIELD (Illuminations Films), Keith Griffiths GRIFFITHS (Illuminations Films)
- Synopsis
- Mekong Hotel is a portrait of a hotel near the Mekong River in the north-east of Thailand. The river there marks the border between Thailand and Laos. In the bedrooms and terraces, Apichatpong held a rehearsal with his crew for a movie that he wrote years ago called Ecstasy Garden. The film shuffles different realms, fact and fiction, expressing the bonds between a vampire-like mother and her daughter, the young lovers and the river. Mekong Hotel - since it was shot at the time of the heavy flooding in Thailand - also weaves in layers of demolition, politics, and a drifting dream of the future.