Venice Hidden Gem: ‘Anatomy of Time’ Tells Story of a Mother’s Sacrifice Honored

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Director Jakrawal Nilthamrong drew on his own family history for an impressionistic look at his mom’s dedication to his ailing father — and used it as a springboard for a mediation on life and loss in his native Thailand.

Venice Hot List: 'Becoming Led Zeppelin', Antonio Banderas-Starrer and More Films Generating Sales Buzzunfurls in two narrative strands, one set in the present day, as a late middle-aged woman cares for her ailing, bed-bound husband, who is revealed to be a disgraced former military commander accused of committing atrocities during Thailand’s communist insurgency in the late 1960s and ’70s.

The director says peering into an imagined version of his mother’s past also appealed to him because so few Thai youth have any curiosity, or knowledge, of the tumultuous and painful political history many of their parents endured. For the many scenes that take place at the military commander’s bedside, with his wife devotedly ministering by his side, Jakrawal and his team set-dressed and filmed the interiors of his own mother’s current home. Many of the past sequences, by contrast, take place in stunning natural settings in rural Thailand, an environment that proved advantageous to creating a period version of the country without splashing out exorbitantly on set design.

 

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