
After the tsunami struck the coast town of Takua Pa, young architect Ton moves in town to develop a construction project and settles in a small hotel run by Na, a young sensitive local girl. They begin a secret love affair, but soon rumors spread and they meet with strong opposition from the town's residents.... (Full plot summary below)
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After the tsunami struck the coast town of Takua Pa, young architect Ton moves in town to develop a construction project and settles in a small hotel run by Na, a young sensitive local girl. They begin a secret love affair, but soon rumors spread and they meet with strong opposition from the town's residents.
Leave your thoughts about Wonderful Town.
| New York TimesNathan LeeIt's no small feat to pull off as sweet and sensitive a romance as that between Na and Ton, and something rarer yet to suffuse such affections into a poem of wounded landscape. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonIt's a film that seduces rather than grabs. |
| Chicago TribuneSid SmithThere's a folksy majesty to Wonderful Town, born of its leisurely pace, pastoral views of idyllic scenery and a storytelling drive set only slightly faster than slow motion. It recalls a lot of rustic, independent English-language films of the '90s |
| San Francisco ChronicleRuthe SteinA sensitive love story from Thailand set against the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami. |
| ReelTalk Movie ReviewsDonald J. Levit'Wonderful Town' is successful in its ironic image of the sleepy yet sinister once-was town that brooks no outsider invaders. |
| Filmcritic.comDon WillmottLaundry drying in a breeze has never looked so threatening. |
| NewsBlazePrairie MillerThe shots of the terrible ruins encircling these damaged lives, are poetically haunting in their stirring minimalism. With the urbanite protagonist perhaps representing an uncaring nation, that has abandoned the rural poor in their hour of need. |
| MUBIDaniel Kasman"Wonderful Town", the promising first film by Aditya Assarat, has a great amount of outer spirit, though what it truly lacks is an expressive inner life. |
| Village VoiceAaron HillisAssarat has little to say about the role of hope in post-traumatic living. |
| Sight and SoundTony RaynsDemonstrates that it's still entirely possible to make a movie outside the framework of pop genre cinema that is engrossing, moving and, in its unassertive way, quietly entertaining. |