Mekong Hotel

The Mekong Hotel, near the Thailand/Laos border, provides the setting for Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s 2012 reverie; two characters ponder life, death, and love in one “existence,” while a mother’s ghost haunts a room in another, occasionally even feasting on entrails. And in yet a third existence, the actor playing the ghost recounts her real-life memories of armed conflict in the region during the 1960s and 1970s. Merging documentary and fiction, and the everyday and supernatural, with onscreen characters shifting between their “otherworldly” and “real” selves, Mekong Hotel is an enigmatic, magical portrait of a hotel, a region, and a nation.

—Curran Gault

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