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  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Kimstim Films
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Kimstim Films
  • 1 h 45 m

Summary Two women arrive at a secluded house surrounded by fields and mountains. The younger woman will direct a film about the older one, a writer who led the student movement in the 1970s. The director records their interviews to use as material for her script. The women dine at a nearby cafe and have an awkward conversation with the girl who ...

Directed By: Anocha Suwichakornpong

Written By: Anocha Suwichakornpong

  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Kimstim Films
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Kimstim Films
  • 1 h 45 m

By the Time It Gets Dark

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Two women arrive at a secluded house surrounded by fields and mountains. The younger woman will direct a film about the older one, a writer who led the student movement in the 1970s. The director records their interviews to use as material for her script. The women dine at a nearby cafe and have an awkward conversation with the girl who ...

Directed By: Anocha Suwichakornpong

Written By: Anocha Suwichakornpong

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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33% Mixed
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90
Apr 13, 2017
It's a film, a rather gorgeous one, of glances and ephemera and delicate metaphors.
By Michael Atkinson FULL REVIEW
88
Mar 14, 2017
Anocha Suwichakornpong earnestly and ambitiously attempts to redefine cinema’s conventional grasp of consciousness.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 13, 2017
Expanding her premise into a reflection on an artist's challenge in portraying reality, the director's By the Time It Gets Dark is a magical, melancholic ode to the intellectual's struggle against the forces of history.
By Clarence Tsui FULL REVIEW
67
Apr 13, 2017
If anything, this comes off as a bit of an imitation of Thai master Apichatpong Weerasethakul, yet without the presence of the supernatural that situates his films in something formally and culturally specific.
By Ethan Vestby FULL REVIEW
58
Mar 30, 2017
By the Time It Gets Dark jumps at first into an examination of Thailand’s repressed history of political violence and dictatorial control. But that initial pencil sketch of a thesis is soon shuffled away in favor of several other less-interesting story threads which add up to much less than the sum of their parts.
By Chris Barsanti FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 13, 2017
By the Time It Gets Dark has clearly been thought through, but it’s so cryptic that it cries out for, if not perfect explanations, perhaps footnotes. It’s so conceptual that it offers little for those not in sync.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Electric Eel Films, Survivance, VS Service
Release Date Apr 14, 2017
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.facebook.com/daokhanongmovie
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Awards

Thailand National Film Association Awards
• 3 Wins & 9 Nominations
Asian Film Festival Barcelona
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
QCinema International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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