Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 8 – Memoria
Tilda Swinton is a florist attuned to surreal frequencies of the Amazon in Thai film-maker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s slowly beautiful and mysterious English-language debut
Claire Armitstead
14, Dec, 2022 @12:00 PM

Best films of 2022 in the UK: No 9 – Memoria
Tilda Swinton is a florist attuned to surreal frequencies of the Amazon in Thai film-maker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s slowly beautiful and mysterious English-language debut
Claire Armitstead
13, Dec, 2022 @6:00 AM

On my radar: Claire Denis’s cultural highlights
The French director on being mesmerised by the film Memoria, and her love of Tindersticks, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and the Mediterranean
Sarah Crompton
10, Sep, 2022 @2:00 PM

The best films of 2022 so far
Tilda Swinton aces Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s dreamy fable, director Clio Barnard’s forbidden affair and Catherine Clinch in The Quiet Girl rank in the pick of this year’s films
Guardian film
09, Jun, 2022 @6:03 AM

Memoria review – Tilda Swinton works her magic in enigmatic fantasy
Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has crafted a trance-like tale of a woman haunted by strange sounds in Colombia
Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
16, Jan, 2022 @8:00 AM

Tilda Swinton: ‘My ambition was always about having a house by the sea and some dogs’
The actor opens up about her queer years with Derek Jarman and her latest clutch of films, and reveals her plans for a career change. And all while taking her five spaniels for a walk
Simon Hattenstone
07, Jan, 2022 @6:00 AM

Audiences to be put in hypnotic trance at Swedish film festival
Three screenings at this year’s Göteborg festival will ‘transform the audience’s state of mind’ with a live hypnotist on stage
Catherine Shoard
05, Jan, 2022 @5:15 PM

Cannes makes up for lost time with a thrilling auteur-packed lineup | Peter Bradshaw
After a year off, Leos Carax should have punters at each others’ throats – and Wes Anderson will boost the blood sugar
Peter Bradshaw
03, Jun, 2021 @2:09 PM

Lost in translation: when film-makers hit the language barrier
Making films in another language is always a risk – for every Yorgos Lanthimos-style success, there’s a Wong Kar-wai disaster lurking around the corner
Caspar Salmon
24, Feb, 2020 @2:43 PM

The 100 best films of the 21st century
Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000
Peter Bradshaw, Cath Clarke, Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard
13, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM

Artes Mundi 8 review – engrossing works blunted by limp liberal agenda
This year’s shortlist features industrial angst, a cryptic shadow play and hypnotic images of American paranoia – but the artists are be being used as human slogans
Jonathan Jones
25, Oct, 2018 @4:19 PM

The man with the exploding head: the director inspired by his medical condition
When acclaimed Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul discovered he had ‘exploding head syndrome’, he let the condition feed into the film about trauma and memory he was making with Tilda Swinton
Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Chiang Mai
24, Oct, 2018 @5:00 AM
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