BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK

Written By Lee Carlton

SYNOPSIS: A filmmaker researching the brutal 1976 Thammasat University massacre sits down to interview an aging former student activist for a film she may never finish — and from that fragile encounter, director Anocha Suwichakornpong spins a shape-shifting meditation on memory, art, and the impossibility of ever truly capturing history. Identities dissolve and reform across timelines as actors, waitresses, and even a field of mushrooms seem to carry pieces of the same restless soul. Hypnotic and formally daring, it’s a film about the ghosts that survive when official history refuses to speak their names.

DIRECTOR: Anocha Suwichakornpong | LANGUAGE: Thai

YEAR: 2016 | RUNNING TIME: 105 minutes | COLOR

COUNTRY: Thailand, France, Netherlands, Qatar | GENRE: Drama

Lee Carlton
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