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10/21/08
Wonderful Town (2008)
92 %
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Reviews Counted: 12
Fresh: 11
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Foreign Films
Theatrical Release: Jul 18, 2008 Limited
Director: Aditya Assarat
Reviews for Wonderful Town
1 - 13 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
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10/18/08
A sensitive love story from Thailand set against the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami.
07/25/08
The 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.
07/19/08
The way in which the relationship is severed, and its understated depiction, leaves you feeling sad and empty, bringing you into communion with the place and its people.
07/18/08
It'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.
07/18/08
Top Critic This delicate, delightful and nearly note-perfect debut feature from young Thai director Aditya Assarad offers more evidence of the tremendous film renaissance underway in East Asia.
07/18/08
Occasionally, Assarat -- who studied in the US -- drops a hint about sinister times to come, but nothing prepares the audience for what does happen.
07/18/08
Assarat has little to say about the role of hope in post-traumatic living.
07/16/08
Story of two lovers trying to stem the tide of gloom and doom in a Thai town devastated by the 2004 tsunami.
07/16/08
[DirectorAssarat’s] raw, poetic sensibility turns this posttraumatic parable into something both dreamy and oddly disturbing.
07/16/08
'Wonderful Town' is successful in its ironic image of the sleepy yet sinister once-was town that brooks no outsider invaders.
07/12/08
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