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ALAN FRANK recommends a hallucinatory trip through a troubled Asian country, and we look at the other films of the week

By the Time it Gets Dark (12A)

Directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong

THAI writer-director Anocha Suwichakornpong’s astonishing second feature evocatively interweaves and reinterprets the lives of its key characters to considerable emotive effect, despite her complex and frequently elusive storytelling.

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