Fiction

Mekong Hotel

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Thailand, GBR, FRA 2012
57 min
V'12

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 Weerasethakul 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. 

Credits
  • Jenjira Pongpas
  • Maiyatan Techaparn
  • Sakda Kaewbuadee
  • Chai Bhatana
  • Chatchai Suban
  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Akritcharlerm Kayalanamitr
  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Chai Bhatana
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