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Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #158. Phuttiphong Aroonpheng’s Morrison

Published on January 9, 2023

Morrison

2022 came and went and Phuttiphong Aroonpheng‘s sophomore film Morrison was mysteriously been left off the bingo card. The Thai-French production starring Hugo Chulachak Chakrabongse, Chicha Amatayakul and Joe Cummings, this went into production sometime in 2020 with CG Cinéma producing. Aroonpheng had quite the first feature debut in Manta Ray – which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2018 and where it won Best Film in the Orizzonti section.

Gist: Jimmy, a 40-year-old former pop-star turned engineer, is sent to the region of his childhood to supervise the renovation of an old hotel. Once settled, Jimmy finds out the once flamboyant hotel has become a ruin, a maze of narrow corridors and a relic of a bygone era, which still bears the scars of the American occupation. In the heart of this mysterious place, Jimmy will wander between dream and fantasy and retrace his family’s history.

Release Date/Prediction: We see this as a Berlinale competition film or Locarno title.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).