By the Time It Gets Dark

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By the Time It Gets Dark

2016

1h 45m

Drama

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A young film director researches a project about the 1976 massacre of Thai student activists at Thammasat University in Bangkok.

Mark Kermode

Observer (UK)

12/27/2017

4/5

It's an intoxicating cocktail, with bursts of time-travelling song breaking through the underlying thrum of insect life, leading towards a trance-dance finale that left my head spinning.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

06/29/2017

3/5

History has seldom seemed more challenging. And history on film is a hiding to nothing.

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Eve Watling

Little White Lies

06/19/2017

3/5

This dreamlike journey into the imagination is never predictable.

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Josh Larsen

LarsenOnFilm

Mar 4

3/4

While always mesmerized, I admittedly got lost amidst the layers...

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Dustin Chang

Floating World

01/22/2025

Dostoevskian concept- like a tobacco leaves and fungi, to give them meaning and purpose, these layers Suwichakornpong presents will need to sit and rot. I am just amazed by her wisdom & skills to convey this kind of complicated thoughts through film.

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Miguel Martín Maestro

El antepenúltimo mohicano

08/03/2020

4/5

Cryptic in many of its proposals, but very bright and very exciting in its answers. [Full review in Spanish]

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Synopsis

A young film director researches a project about the 1976 massacre of Thai student activists at Thammasat University in Bangkok.

Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong
Producer: Lee Chatametikool, Benjawan Somsin, Soros Sukhum, Anocha Suwichakornpong
Screenwriter: Anocha Suwichakornpong
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Thai
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 10, 2017
Runtime: 1h 45m

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