
'Tropical Malady' explores the passionate relationship between two men with unusual consequences. The film is divided in two parts. The first half charts the modest attraction between two men in the sunny, relaxing countryside and the second half charts the confusion and terror of an unknown menace lurking deep within the jungle shadows.... (Full plot summary below)
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'Tropical Malady' explores the passionate relationship between two men with unusual consequences. The film is divided in two parts. The first half charts the modest attraction between two men in the sunny, relaxing countryside and the second half charts the confusion and terror of an unknown menace lurking deep within the jungle shadows.
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| L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasThis may be one of the most rapturously original, mysteriously beautiful love stories ever told -- Baboon-language skills optional. |
| New York Daily NewsJami BernardThis challenging, inventive movie from Thailand is not for everyone. |
| San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonAn entirely unconventional, hypnotic, meandering film. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseWeerasethakul's confident composition of sight and sound induces a trance-like state with an elegant suggestion: that all-consuming love is for old souls. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezApichatpong Weerasethakul beautifully evokes the existential fiber between sexual desire and cultural myth. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonThis new film is a mad puzzle, given as a gift from someone who recognizes his audience as thinking, feeling beings. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyThe most beguilingly mysterious film you are likely to see this year, Tropical Malady delves into gay desire and Thai myth in utterly original, bizarre, and erotic way |
| MovieMartyr.comJeremy HeilmanApichatpong poetically expresses the transformative quality of love, realizing a kind of intense profundity that simply could not be reached in any other medium. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonThe film evolves into something deeper, a story about the atavistic wildness within people. |
| Film Comment MagazineKent JonesImage for image, this hour-long stretch provided the Cannes competition with its most rarefied and ravishing experience. |