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Decameron
THAILAND · 2020

Decameron

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
isolation during lockdown insects and nature domestic rituals light and darkness survival and sustenance
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Synopsis

Decameron was shot in lockdown during the Thai monsoon season, in 2020. In a dark room, a woman removes insects from a mosquito net in order to cook them. The moving light she holds briefly reveals her face, the transparent panel of the mosquito net and the insects left outside of it.

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