Thai auteur Sivaroj Kongsakul made his directorial debut with “Eternity,” which screened at festivals including Busan, Rotterdam and Hong Kong in 2010. After more than a decade of waiting, Kongsakul has chosen to intertwine the adventures of an old man, a little girl and a young soldier in his second feature, “Regretfully at Dawn.”
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The new film is expected to premiere in the New Directors section at the San Sebastian Film Festival and will soon after be shown at the Busan International Film Festival in October.
The film is very different from “Eternity” and from Kongsakul’s recent TV work.
In a small province not far from Bangkok, the life of Yong Junjam (played by Surachai Juntimatorn, who is better known as a veteran Thai rock musician) seems at first to be typical of an old man. The traces of his past as a soldier are also clearly visible. Although he is currently not feeling well, Yong spends every day dreaming of building a tree house of his own, while raising an intelligent and lively cousin who has been abandoned by her parents. They live with Rambo, his black dog with peculiar eyes. When one day time seems to stand still and the sun refuses to rise any further, the man feels his approaching death.
