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An adventurous experiment in cinematic storytelling, this low-budget independent Thai feature is structured like the Surrealist idea of the "exquisite corpse." One person begins a story, and a success... read more read more...ion of others continue it in whatever way they see fit. Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul gleans his participants from all over the Thai countryside. The story, begun by a young woman with a personal history harrowing enough for its own movie, concerns a wheelchair-bound boy and his enigmatic tutor Dogfar. As the tale is passed along between a variety of rural characters (including, at one point, a traveling dance troupe who perform it for an audience), everything from kidnappings to space aliens are added to the mix. The film alternates between the storytellers and the story they tell, along with "behind the scenes" shots and other documentary footage that blur the line between fiction and non-fiction and make the film itself a witty, quirky exploration of the very notion of storytelling. ~ Tom Vick, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 23 min.

Directed by: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Release Date: June 23, 2001

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DVD Release Date: January 21, 2003

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  • jutamanee
    May 22, 2006
    jutamanee
    I am half Thai and adopted from Thailand at the age of four. The impressions that I have stored in my memory have not much to do with the tourist brochures. I never understood the Thai culture nor ever had the desire to explore. With artists like this coming out of this countr... read morey, however, I am finally interested.

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Dennis Schwartz
October 4, 2007
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

... it's wonderfully different from any American film... Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson
March 1, 2004
Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

This masterpiece from new Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul blends fiction and nonfiction into a form of cinema previously forged by Hou Hsiao-hsien and Abbas Kiarostami. Full Review

Rumsey Taylor
March 18, 2003
Rumsey Taylor, Not Coming to a Theater Near You

Mysterious Object at Noon is fascinating not for its conclusiveness (which it inevitably lacks) but its construction. It is a film made with little domestic influence, austere in its appearance and un... Full Review

Christopher Null
December 15, 2002
Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com

What the hell? Full Review

Elvis Mitchell
January 23, 2003
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times

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Jonathan Rosenbaum
January 23, 2003
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

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Emanuel Levy
August 16, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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Derek Adams
February 9, 2006
Derek Adams, Time Out

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