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Exploring the sufferings of Thai villagers in the aftermath of the 2006 tsunami, Wonderful Town is a poignant, meditative romantic tale whose success hinges on what it doesn't say.

Anchalee saisoontorn biography of michael

Although this fictional community is based on a real one where 8,000 people lost their lives, there is only one direct mention of the catastrophe itself, and director Aditya Assarat employs zero tormented flashbacks or teary recollections.

He rightfully assumes his audience to have enough basic knowledge of the subject - so well-documented, after all - and instead conjures an entirely new drama from the social debris left once the waters cleared.

An assured debut feature, Assarat's film is in fact much less about the tsunami than what followed in the communities it so ravaged. They’re like rehabilitated patients, cured but forever unable to regain blessed normality.

Wonderful Town zeroes in on a budding, brooding romance in Assarat’s fictional setting.

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