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whileiamdying · 4 months

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‘The Long Walk’ Review: A Ghostly Future in Laos

This Laotian drama from Mattie Do presents a world where spirits linger on into a future that has been shaped by technology.

By Teo Bugbee March 2, 2022

The Laotian drama The Long Walk takes a languid look around a near-future dystopia where fighter jets leave smoke trails in the sky and government authorities track missing people using microchips embedded in their bodies. In this reality, a spiritual, occult world exists underneath the noses of officials.

The movie follows an unnamed protagonist (Yannawoutthi Chanthalungsy), an isolated older man known by the people in his town as someone who can communicate with the dead and find people who have gone missing.

But what the medium’s clients don’t know is that he also helps women who are sick and desperate for relief from life’s hardships facilitate their own deaths. When a young woman (Vilouna Phetmany) seeks him out for guidance in finding her missing mother, she doesn’t know that the body he leads her to is one he buried himself.

The hermit travels along the road connecting life and death, accompanied by ghosts and in possession of powers that allow him to visit and potentially alter his own past. Yet despite the high concepts that drive the film’s story, its writer and director, Mattie Do, does not overburden the movie with exposition or explanations.

She sets a leisurely pace, pausing to watch how the humid air interacts with the smoke from the shaman’s vape pen. The atmosphere here is dense with textural detail and requires patience to sift through the layers of meaning that are packed into each frame. The reward for waiting for the fog to lift is a movie that presents a unique take on science fiction, one that looks for the ghosts that linger on in a world that has been shaped by technology.

The Long Walk:

Director: Mattie Do Writer: Christopher Larsen Stars: Yannawoutthi Chanthalungsy, Vilouna Phetmany, Por Silatsa, Noutnapha Soydara, Chanthamone Inoudome Running Time: 1h 56m Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

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literarysiren · 2 years

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If you wanna get your mind twisted up by some time travel narratives that'll rip your heart out from Laos' first and only female director, Mattie Do is here to serve it to you on a platter and then haunt your dreams for eternity.

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screenzealots · 2 years

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Patience is rewarded when viewing director Mattie Do‘s “The Long Walk,” an atypical ghost story that blends elements of science fiction, fantasy, and horror into a sophisticated, thoughtful drama about past regrets and the need for connection not only in our present lives, but with those from our past. This film features a meaningful story that’s wistful, disturbing, and surprising. The less you…

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moviesandmania · 2 years

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THE LONG WALK (2019) Reviews and overview

The Long Walk is a 2019 metaphysical science fantasy film about an old Laotian hermit who discovers the ghost of a road accident victim. Directed by US-born filmmaker Mattie Do (Chanthaly; Dearest Sister) from a screenplay written by Christopher Larsen. The movie stars Yannawoutthi Chanthalungsy, Vilouna Phetmany, Por Silatsa, Noutnapha Soydara, Chanthamone Inoudome and Vithaya Sombath. Plot: An…

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filmpolicereviews · 5 years

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'Cleaners' wins Top Prize in QCinema 2019, and more from the festival

Glenn Barit, Che Tagyamon, Rae Red, Janine Gutierrez among the winners at this year's QCinema International Film Festival. Read here:

In what many audiences deem as one of the best QCinema edition by far, Cleaners is undoubtedly one of the best films to come out of the main competition, and one of the best debut films of newcomer filmmaker Glenn Barit, with his innovative technique of photocopied stills which are then manually colored in highlighter pens and then animated, is just an added bonus to a nostalgic coming-of-age…

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kisafilms · 2 years

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THE LONG WALK (2019)

The Long Walk is a 2019 metaphysical science fantasy film about an old Laotian hermit who discovers the ghost of a road accident victim. Directed by US-born filmmaker Mattie Do (Chanthaly; Dearest Sister) from a screenplay written by Christopher Larsen. The movie stars Yannawoutthi Chanthalungsy, Vilouna Phetmany, Por Silatsa, Noutnapha Soydara, Chanthamone Inoudome and Vithaya […]THE LONG WALK…

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gebo4482 · 2 years

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The Long Walk - Official Trailer (2022)

Dir: Mattie Do Star: Yannawoutthi Chanthalungsy / Vilouna Phetmany / Por Silatsa

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