A wonderful slow-paced and dreamy paean to summer laziness, featuring a Burmese man and a Thai woman who subtly disobey the rules of society and skip work to go picnicking in the forest and swimming in a stream. Nothing really happens and the film is extremely slow at some points (holding a shot on a sleeping girl for five minutes) but it's extremely atmospheric and involving, and so cleverly subversive. Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul ('Joe' to his friends) has become one of my favourites in recent years with his experimental and dreamlike films that are so close to reality and yet like no other filmmaker around today.
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