Image for image, this hour-long stretch provided the Cannes competition with its most rarefied and ravishing experience.

| Apr 11, 2018

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

As stylistically striking as it is adventurous.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 20, 2005

The film evolves into something deeper, a story about the atavistic wildness within people.

| Sep 2, 2005

For an exquisite taste of sensory cinema, look no further.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 19, 2005

Some fantasy films make the leap from reality to reverie relatively seamlessly, hopscotching between the two states without leaving the audience behind. Tropical Malady is not one of those.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 18, 2005

Tropical Malady is the work of a visionary fabulist.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 21, 2005

An intriguing emotional and intellectual puzzle that made me feel exhilarated and contemplative.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 15, 2005

It's not the kind of movie you simply leave behind in the theater. It will follow you home, leaving only a trail of soft, invisible paw prints.

| Jul 5, 2005

A few adventurous souls who have taken their malaria shots will be blown away by writer-director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's brilliant tinkering with narrative and visuals to tell a simple, timeless story in a wholly new and exciting way.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 1, 2005

If you enjoy intelligent, challenging filmmaking, Tropical Malady is for you.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 29, 2005

There is no loss of art-movie face to be had, I assure you, in admitting difficulty with the filmmaker's intentional tangle of genres as he stakes his story between waking life and legend.

| Original Score: B | Jun 29, 2005

World cinema's premier maker of mysterious objects, Apichatpong Weerasethakul is on a one-man mission to change the way we watch movies.

Full Review | Jun 28, 2005

The leisurely storytelling may frustrate some viewers, yet this mysterious film succeeds in casting its own sensual spell.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 8, 2005

This is a work of outstanding originality and power that comes nearer to the condition of the quest and the dream-state than any film in recent years.

| Mar 1, 2005

With this fractured love story, the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul pushes at the limits of narrative with grace and a puckish willfulness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 19, 2004

Certainly for most audiences the viewing experience will prove not only tedious but bewildering.

Full Review | Oct 5, 2004

Takes the viewer on a mysterious and sporadically fascinating trip into the darkness of the human heart and Thai legend, but only after an hour of a weakly structured story about two young men who are attracted to each other.

| Oct 5, 2004

Apichatpong Weerasethakul beautifully evokes the existential fiber between sexual desire and cultural myth.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 30, 2004