A fleeting shadow, an elusive memory fading as the mind slips into sleep, a long lost lover reborn in a dream.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 6, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 17, 2011

The pic has a Buddhist aura surrounding it, leaving a warm and happy feeling with the viewer.

| Original Score: A | Feb 7, 2008

A quieter, shorter but scarcely less idiosyncratic specimen of Rorschach cinema than Inland Empire.

| Original Score: B | Dec 1, 2007

As Ken Tynan said of Waiting for Godot, nothing happens, twice.

| Sep 29, 2007

Don't watch it for plot, or character development; revel instead in its evocation of warm, wistful moods, its sly sense of humour and its fierce commitment to creating a mystical cinema far from the orthodoxies of both independent and mainstream cinema.

| Sep 21, 2007

Don't think of it as film. Think of it as a series of paintings that talk to each other, raptly and quietly.

| Sep 21, 2007

Profoundly mysterious, erotic, funny, gentle, playful, utterly distinctive, it is the work of the Thai director and installation-artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who now has a claim to be approaching the league of Kiarostami and Haneke.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 21, 2007

This curio sometimes bemuses, but it's utterly fresh and alive.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2007

This portrait of life is all about the yin and the yang, so it follows that for everyone who finds it dull there are those who will be captivated.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2007

Knowingly enigmatic, but more accessible than the director's previous works.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2007

As delicate, complex and strange as any rare orchid, and as unlikely to appeal to mainstream tastes, Syndromes And A Century more than delivers on the enigma promised by its bifurcated title.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 13, 2007

His fifth feature, Syndromes and a Century, might be [the director's] most purely intoxicating.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 7, 2007

This gentle film with surprising dollops of humanistic humor floats by like a dream upon which we are eavesdropping.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 25, 2007

Weerasethakul has become less and less dependent on narrative, relying instead on emotional impressions and rhythms (and even a few deadpan laughs).

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 26, 2007

[The director's] quiet sense of humor and colorful characters are endearing but the pleasures are less in the abstract story than the flow of his moods and the shades of his atmospheres.

| Original Score: B | Jul 19, 2007

If you allow the film to wash over you, it can be appreciated as an essay on the power of memory.

| Original Score: B | Jul 14, 2007

Watching Syndromes and Century is like reading a Samuel Beckett novel, only it's slow, confusing, and bleak. Okay, so it's like reading a Samuel Beckett novel.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 13, 2007

The moment-to-moment textures of Syndromes and a Century are so densely real in their minimalism that they make you suspend all interpretation and simply exist in the present.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 3, 2007

This one appears to simply be scenes set in a rural Thai hospital that were strung together at random.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 18, 2007