Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)

Highly Recommended

Thailand

Feature Film/Dcoumentary

Original Title: ดอกฟ้าในมือมาร

Writer/Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Cinematographers: Prasong Klimborron, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Cast: Somsri Pinyopol, Duangjai Hiransri, To Hanudomlapr, Kannikar Narong, Kongkiert Komsiri

With a mixture of documentary footage and dramatised scenes, Weerasethakul travels across Thailand meeting with ordinary rural Thais, who he encourages to expand upon a story involving a wheelchair-bound young boy whose teacher collapses and sprouts a mysterious object from between her legs, in this hallucinatory and decidedly original feature debut. Iain.Stott