at once a playful documentary and a documentary feature film. In this feature-length debut, Weerasethakul and his crew travel from Bangkok to the rural south and back. The documentary approach is connected to the fictional “Once upon a time…” : Weerasethakul asks the people whom he meets to continue telling a tuna-seller’s story about a boy in a wheelchair and his teacher, and re-enacts the scenes.
(Arsenal Kino)