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SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY Series: The 44th New York Film Festival [Sept 29 - Oct 15 2006] Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Country: Thailand/France/Austria, Release: 2006, Runtime: 105 A rising international star, Thailand’s Apichatpong Weerasethakul made his American breakthrough with the audacious Tropical Malady (NYFF ’04), a love story remarkable for its tenderness and originality of vision. Those same qualities shine through his wonderful new film, a reverie based on the director’s memories of growing up as the son of physicians. The movie is broken into two distinct but analogous parts: One focuses on a female doctor in a small-town clinic, the other on a male doctor at a big city hospital. What unites the stories is Apichatpong’s superb eye for nuances of feeling, anti-nostalgic nostalgia, and alluring knack for finding marvelous vignettes, be it a droll Bangkok doctor boozing it up before she appears on TV or the exquisite poetry of villagers listening to a Thai country-western singer serenading the night. Screening at Alice Tully Hall, north side of 65th Street west of Broadway.

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