“Not Friends” is the directorial debut of Atta Hemwadee. This coming-of-age comedy-drama was released in Thailand at the end of 2023, and was chosen as Thailand's submission for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards, although it did not receive a nomination.
Not Friends is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam
The story, written by the director himself, centres around Pae (Anthony Buisseret), a teenage student who was recently transferred to a new school during his sixth semester. There, he meets Joe (Pisitpol Ekaphongpisit), a popular and sociable student, who wants to befriend the main protagonist. After Joe tragically dies in a car accident, Pae decides to exploit the situation by making a short film that would help him get into a university, as he would rather not work at the family business. However, one girl at the school who knew Joe quite well, Bokeh (Thitiya Jirapornsilp), sees...
Not Friends is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam
The story, written by the director himself, centres around Pae (Anthony Buisseret), a teenage student who was recently transferred to a new school during his sixth semester. There, he meets Joe (Pisitpol Ekaphongpisit), a popular and sociable student, who wants to befriend the main protagonist. After Joe tragically dies in a car accident, Pae decides to exploit the situation by making a short film that would help him get into a university, as he would rather not work at the family business. However, one girl at the school who knew Joe quite well, Bokeh (Thitiya Jirapornsilp), sees...
- 2/1/2024
- by Tobiasz Dunin
- AsianMoviePulse
The overloaded Thai equivalent of one of those YA weepies where terminally ill teens scramble to fulfill their bucket lists before expiring at a young age, all-the-feels buddy movie “One for the Road” is determined to leave audiences both shaken and stirred. Your mileage may vary as director Baz Poonpiriya (“Bad Genius”) packs this concoction with a lifetime’s worth of romances, breakups and reconciliations; a cancer diagnosis; a cheek-tweakingly adorable kid; all sorts of overdue apologies; several family surprises; and one of those scenes where the music swells as someone’s ashes are scattered to the winds.
Seeing so many emotions squeezed into 137 minutes surely explains why Sundance Film Festival programmers picked this broadly appealing international selection as one of half a dozen films to screen on opening night of the 2021 virtual edition. Well, that and the fact it was produced by Wong Kar Wai, whose blessing gives this...
Seeing so many emotions squeezed into 137 minutes surely explains why Sundance Film Festival programmers picked this broadly appealing international selection as one of half a dozen films to screen on opening night of the 2021 virtual edition. Well, that and the fact it was produced by Wong Kar Wai, whose blessing gives this...
- 1/29/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
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