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Mundane History (2009)

The Asian Film Archive presents a screening of Anocha Suwichakornpong’s award-winning drama, which explores the evolving relationship between a handicapped young man and his nurse in contemporary Bangkok.

When
Sun, 20 Sep 2026 · 2:00 PM
until Sun, 20 Sep 2026 · 3:40 PM
Where
Asian Film Archive (National Archives of Singapore)
1 Canning Rise, Singapore 179868
Singapore 179868
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For
adults · 18+
Cost
price not stated

About this event

Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong

Runtime: 81 mins

Country: Thailand

Language: Thai with English subtitles

Rating: R21

Awards

Tiger Award

International Film Festival Rotterdam

Best Director

Bombay International Film Festival 2010

Transilvania Trophy

Transilvania International Film Festival

Synopsis

Anocha Suwichakornpong’s Mundane History explores the slow evolution of feeling between Ake (Phakpoom Surapongsanuruk), a wealthy and jaded young man left handicapped by a car accident, and Pun (Arkaney Cherkam), his new nurse. Set in a once-grand bourgeois manor in Bangkok, the household becomes a synecdoche of the Thai nation, as the unfeeling patriarch, Ake’s authoritarian father, shows little warmth toward him.

As a complex psychological drama develops, the film’s non-linear structure flows through six macro-sequences that slide back and forth in time. This atmospheric, ghostly space is interspersed with mystical asides to astronomy and melancholy post-rock music by Furniture and The Photo Sticker Machine. The film marks Suwichakornpong’s maiden voyage into commenting on contemporary Thailand, finding lyrical cinematic freedom through existential questions of rebirth and the cycle of time itself.

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