The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw praised Weerasethakul’s new film in his Cannes review, as an “essay in psychogeography and a meditation on death, the presence of the spirit world in nature and the unquiet ghosts of guilt and pain in the Thai nation, as symbolised by the military”.
Thailand has been under military dictatorship since May 2014, when a junta led by unelected prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha seized power. Human Rights Watch has condemned what it says is the continued use of arbitrary arrest and secret detention to intimidate and silence dissidents