36

2012 [THAI]

Action / Drama

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 100% · 6 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 67%
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 728 728

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Plot summary

A young location scout meets the art director of her project in a day they will keep in their memories for a while, each for their own reasons.

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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 8 / 10

A moving melancholic meditation on memory which feels

A moving melancholic meditation on memory which feels technologically dated but still rings true emotionally.
Reviewed by nick s 10 / 10

The debut feature film by Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit is

The debut feature film by Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit is a sophisticated and thought-provoking lyrical glance at love, time and memory. The director summarises the idea of film as it is a story about fragile love and digital memory recorded on the lost photo. Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit is a young Thai photographer and director who shots music videos, short films, documentaries, Internet films, etc. The first film 36 had gained very positive feedback from the audience and critics being praised for sublime minimalism, beautiful symbols and gentle way of storytelling. I came across 36 accidentally, but absolutely loved this film, and it has been one of the strongest impressions from Thai cinema I have gotten, something to stand together with Anocha Suwichakornpong, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang or Rooth Thang. This is a story of man Oom (Wanlop Rungkumjad) and women Sai (Koramitr Vajrasthira) who met working at the location of future film capturing the pictures for the director. They have developed the feelings for each other, and very few photos of them were recorded on the hard disk. One day, the photos disappeared from the hard disk, and Sai realized a part of her memory is also gone. At first, she wants to get these pictures recovered, but later she shows no more happiness knowing there is a way to get them back. Ruminating, she feels that the fragile love has been lost forever, and it may be useless to try restoring the chips of it. Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit never shows the face of Oom clearly filming him from behind or sides. We can only imagine him, as well as Sai now who hasn't seen him for a long time. And now Sai is also not sure if she remembers him well, and if this poignancy is something she should recover. The mood of the film is very lyrical, and the simple story happens to say a lot in such a minimalistic but precise language. The film is shot in 36 static long takes. The camera never moves, and protagonists just pass by or step into the shot. Sometimes, the camera just films some different props, while characters talk on the background. Every short chapter of this 68 minutes film has its own name which is linked to the plot. And the aesthetic style of 36 is very pleasant and clear. It looks like a brilliant work of a photographer who came up with impeccable and original ideas of these 36 takes. All of them are beautiful and take a part in creating a mood emphasizing the fragility of our feelings. Some shots are silent, and I really loved how Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit shows Oom in the end. The ways of Oom and Sai split, but he had secretly saved some of the photos from her hard drive. In the end, he turns on his laptop with a picture of them on the wallpapers. And Sai would never learn about his feelings. 36 is a vivacious debut of young Thai filmmaker Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit. The feature film of this type is not demanding to equipment, edition methods or actor's performance as it relies upon the principal photography and director's vision and taste. Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit shows himself to be a master who creates a lyrical, poignant mood of lost love, telling his story in slow paces with plenty of wonderful shots and tender music. This is a fantastic film and a great example to the filmmakers on debut features.
Reviewed by Musicianmagic 4 / 10

Kept losing interest

A location scout is checking on a building for an upcoming movie & taking a lot of pictures of the building. The art director is also there & he avoids being in any of those pictures except one. Two years later and the location scout is in need of a building for another movie and remembers that building from two years ago and the art director. She pulls out the hard drive that has all the pictures she took but the drive fails.The "36" in the title refers to the 36 pictures that used to be in a roll of film (tho some were 24) as well as the 36 individual scenes of this movie. Each with a title of sorts. I guess it was creative but didn't make the movie any more interesting.Every scene in this movie moves at a snails pace. Especially early on, a lot of time is spent of the two characters walking & the sound of a camera clicking with little dialogue & you rarely see their faces. Really this could have been a 15 minute movie. Not much happens throughout.I can't comment on the acting because there's almost none but I didn't see much. Most of the dialogue between the two main characters could have been adlib. After that there's no dialogue with emotion. Even when she realizes an entire year of pictures could be lost forever because the hard drive fails to load, there's no emotion at all. You'd think she would have expressed being upset.A few times I thought it might be e getting interesting and then it just sort of drags on about nothing for a while. Just skip this one.
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