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A Thai woman tries to avoid working in the red-light district of Bangkok and seeks some security by living with a European man.
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| Total FilmCarmen GrayDislocation and desperation are the twin linchpins of Brit director Thomas Clay's Thailand-set slowburner. |
| Time OutDavid JenkinsHere is an artist who has gone back to the drawing board and pared down his act to deliver a stark and complex humanist message with technical brio and a broad knowledge of cinema, demonstrating real poise and originality. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawA mysterious, hallucinatory and weirdly enthralling metaphysical essay. |
| Eye for FilmAmber WilkinsonClay doesn't want for ideas but his symbolism is in grave danger of smothering the story |
| Film4Anton BitelA bold experiment or a crashing bore? Clay's muted hybrid is a bit of both, in unequal measure. |
| Sunday Times (UK)Edward PorterThere is skill, thoughtfulness and chutzpah here, but not enough to create the sort of mesmeric power that a film of this kind needs. |
| Observer (UK)Jason SolomonsThis wilful obscurantism comes across merely as a pose, an undergraduate homage to both Antonioni and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. |
| Times (UK)Wendy IdeSoi Cowboy, confirms Thomas Clay's arthouse cine-literacy but suggests that he might not know what to do with all the movie references that he spreads liberally through his work. |
| Sky CinemaRob DanielSoi Cowboy's wet concrete pacing, dialogue free scenes, and prolonged takes will test the patience of even the most understanding movie buff. |
| User ReviewPhil NThomas Clays chooses to paraphrase Thai avant film genius Apichatpong Weerasetakul in this slow moving essay on the tourist trade, which in Clays opinion seem to be only a continuation of Western colonization. He uses Weerasetakuls modus operandi freely throughout: the dramatic zoom-ins, the attention to detail and the different narratives incorporated into one. Close to perfection. |