This year’s Sundance Film Festival only sees two Asian entries in its World Cinema Dramatic Competition — and Nattawut “Baz” Poonpiriya kills it with his hotly-anticipated feature, “One for the Road.” The Thai director first attracted attention with his 2017 high school testing heist, “Bad Genius” (now available on Netflix!) — the highest grossing film of the year in his homeland. Now, in his 2021 feature, he’s joined forces with legendary Hong Kong producer Wong Kar-wai to spin a nostalgic tale with a modern twist.
One for the Road is screening at Sundance
“One for the Road” kicks off at New York bar. Boss (Tor Thanapob) is an attractive, but noncommittal bartender; he treats his customers with more than just drinks on the regular. One night, an old friend from Bangkok, Aood (Ice Natara) asks him to return. It turns out that Aood has cancer, and furthermore, has a strange request: he...
One for the Road is screening at Sundance
“One for the Road” kicks off at New York bar. Boss (Tor Thanapob) is an attractive, but noncommittal bartender; he treats his customers with more than just drinks on the regular. One night, an old friend from Bangkok, Aood (Ice Natara) asks him to return. It turns out that Aood has cancer, and furthermore, has a strange request: he...
- 1/30/2021
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
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