First, a bit of news that'll rankle. Apichatpong Weerasethakul has cancelled the local release of Syndromes and a Century after censors "insisted that four 'sensitive' scenes be cut," reports Kong Rithdee in the Bangkok Post. Limitless Cinema has the article and more linkage.

"David Lynch may have drawn sold-out screenings at the very beginning of Inland Empire's recent theatrical run, but Apichatpong's movie casts a more rewarding and successful spell with trademark gambits and surreal touches," writes Johnny Ray Huston. "Syndromes and a Century reinvents a genre that would seem beyond rescue, the romantic comedy. When Apichatpong and his actors hit their improvisational stride, the results can be as funny as - and less forced than - 60s-pop Jean-Luc Godard at his most madcap. When Apichatpong lets the story go underground and grow aimless, Syndromes starts to levitate".

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