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By the Time It Gets Dark

Dao Khanong (AKA By the Time It Gets Dark)

2016

Anocha Suwichakornpong

Arak Amornsupasiri, Atchara Suwan, Visra Vichit-Vadakan, Inthira Charoenpura ...

5.5

62

Drama A film director and her muse who was a student activist in the 1970s, a waitress who keeps changing jobs, an actor and an actress, all live loosely connected to each other by almost invisible threads. The narrative sheds its skin several times to reveal layer upon layer of the complexities that make up the characters’ lives. (FILMAFFINITY)

	Author	Review
United States	Clarence Tsui The Hollywood Reporter	"Expanding her premise into a reflection on an artist's challenge in portraying reality, the director's 'By the Time It Gets Dark' is a magical, melancholic ode to the intellectual's struggle against the forces of history."	POS
United States	Chris Barsanti The Playlist	"If this is satire, 'By the Time It Gets Dark' is a mostly toothless one. Suwichakornpong has an accomplished eye for bright, aching imagery and haunting cross-cutting."	NEU
United States	Chuck Bowen Slant	"Suwichakornpong earnestly and ambitiously attempts to redefine cinema’s conventional grasp of consciousness (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"'By the Time It Gets Dark' has clearly been thought through, but it’s so cryptic that it cries out for, if not perfect explanations, perhaps footnotes. It’s so conceptual that it offers little for those not in sync."	NEU
United States	Michael Atkinson Village Voice	"You could be forgiven for thinking that while all this is going on, nothing at all seems to happen — it’s a film, a rather gorgeous one, of glances and ephemera and delicate metaphors."	POS
United Kingdom	Kate Muir The Times	"The director Anocha Suwichakornpong’s style has some of the magic realist mystery of the more famous Apichatpong Weerasethakul, but there is also something playful and funny (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Tara Brady Irish Times	"It may be too elliptical for mainstream tastes, but Suwichakornpong (...) has fashioned quite the Godardian puzzle. History has seldom seemed more challenging (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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