One for the Road Review: Old Friends Drink and Drive in Wong Kar Wai-Produced Thai Melodrama One for the Road Review: Old Friends Drink and Drive in Wong Kar Wai-Produced Thai Melodrama
A bartender and his dying best friend reunite in an emotionally manipulative road movie that spans two continents and several relationships.
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Director: Baz Poonpiriya
With: Tor Thanapob, Ice Natara, Violette Wautier, Aokbab Chutimon, Ploi Horwang, Noon Siraphun, Thaneth Warakulnukroh, Rhatha Phongam. (Thai, English dialogue)
Running time: Running time: 137 MIN.
Courtesy of Sundance Institute
The overloaded Thai equivalent of one of those YA weepies where terminally ill teens scramble to fulfill their bucket lists before expiring at a young age, all-the-feels buddy movie “One for the Road” is determined to leave audiences both shaken and stirred. Your mileage may vary as director Baz Poonpiriya (“Bad Genius”) packs this concoction wit
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – One for the Road
Co-written and directed by Baz Poonpiriya.
Starring Tor Thanapob, Ice Natara, Violette Wautier, Aokbab Chutimon, Ploi Horwang, and Noon Siraphun.
SYNOPSIS:
Boss, a high-end club owner living in New York, receives a call from his friend in Thailand, Aood, revealing he is in the last stages of terminal cancer.
Director Baz Poonpiriya (
Countdown, Bad Genius) returns with a sumptuous melodrama which plumbs the depths of producer Wong Kar-wai’s thematic cachet for a richly rewarding, heart-swelling meditation on life, death, love, and atonement.
Boss (Thanapob Leeratanakajorn) is a handsome, well-minted bartender running his own joint in New York City, where he entertains customers with his cocktail-making skills and frequently spends the night with the female clientele. But Boss’ seemingly idyllic existence hits a brick wall when his estranged pal, Aood (Ice Natara), calls from Bangkok with terrible news; he’s dying of