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By the Time It Gets Dark

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A young film director researches a project about the 1976 massacre of Thai student activists at Thammasat University in Bangkok.

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Mark Kermode Observer (UK) Dec 27, 2017
4/5
It's an intoxicating cocktail, with bursts of time-travelling song breaking through the underlying thrum of insect life, leading towards a trance-dance finale that left my head spinning. Go to Full Review
Tara Brady Irish Times Jun 29, 2017
3/5
History has seldom seemed more challenging. And history on film is a hiding to nothing. Go to Full Review
Eve Watling Little White Lies Jun 19, 2017
3/5
This dreamlike journey into the imagination is never predictable. Go to Full Review
Josh Larsen LarsenOnFilm Mar 4, 2026
3/4
While always mesmerized, I admittedly got lost amidst the layers... Go to Full Review
Dustin Chang Floating World Jan 22, 2025
Dostoevskian concept- like a tobacco leaves and fungi, to give them meaning and purpose, these layers Suwichakornpong presents will need to sit and rot. I am just amazed by her wisdom & skills to convey this kind of complicated thoughts through film. Go to Full Review
Miguel Martín Maestro El antepenúltimo mohicano Aug 3, 2020
4/5
Cryptic in many of its proposals, but very bright and very exciting in its answers. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
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Anocha Suwichakornpong

Director

Arak Amornsupasiri

Peter

Apinya Sakuljaroensuk

Tak

Achtara Suwan

Nong

Visra Vichit-Vadakan

Ann

Anocha Suwichakornpong

Screenwriter

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By the Time It Gets Dark

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Movie Info

Synopsis A young film director researches a project about the 1976 massacre of Thai student activists at Thammasat University in Bangkok.
Director
Anocha Suwichakornpong
Producer
Lee Chatametikool, Benjawan Somsin, Soros Sukhum, Anocha Suwichakornpong
Screenwriter
Anocha Suwichakornpong
Production Co
Survivance, VS Service, Electric Eel Films
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Thai
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 10, 2017
Runtime
1h 45m
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