Kenji, a lonely Japanese librarian living in
Bangkok, is obsessed by life’s details as he attempts
to find meaning through order. He feels his own life is systematic
and empty and has contemplated suicide many times, on each
occasion preparing for his departure down to the smallest
aesthetic details. Then one day, while he is poised to leap
off a bridge, a girl dies in front of him while her sister
Noi, with whom she was fighting, also watches. Stunned by
the event, Kenji and Noi retreat to her ramshackle house,
where they are slowly, unaccountably, drawn to each other
as their pasts descend upon them with a vengeance. A wondrously
magic-realist romance, Last Life in the Universe is a thoughtful
contemplation on life, death, and the search for bliss that
fills the void between them. (112 mins.) This year’s
Thai submission for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. Print courtesy
of Palm Pictures.
Filmography: 6ixtynin9 (99), Mon-Rak
Transistor (02).
SHOWTIMES: 2/21, 9pm and 2/22,
1pm B1. |
