Debuting Singapore writer-director Kirsten Tan brings to this atypical roadside feature a distinct visual style, narrative, and humor.
Facing a mid-life crisis, and disillusionment with his career and wife Bo (Penpak Sirikul), the renown architect Thana (Thaneth Warakulnukroh) has a chance encounter with his favorite childhood elephant, Pop Aye (Bong). After buying Pop Aye from his keeper, Thana and Pop Aye travel 300 miles across Thailand from Bangkok to their rural hometown Loei.
While reminiscing in this journey of self-discovery, the hitchhiking duo encounter Thai locals along the way including, among others, the drifter Dee (Chaiwat Khumdee), transgender Jenni (Yukontorn Sukkijja) and Thana's uncle Peak (Narong Pongpab).
Aided
by Chananun Chotrungroj’s beautiful camerawork, Tan structures the
narrative through a series of vignettes with interweaved flashbacks
while grounding the film with eloquent simplicity, authenticity and
candor.
Aided
by Chananun Chotrungroj’s beautiful camerawork, Tan structures the
narrative through a series of vignettes with interweaved flashbacks
while grounding the film with eloquent simplicity, authenticity and
candor.
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