Eternity

I was alerted to this trailer for the new Thai film Eternity by a post on Filipino film blogger Adrian Mendizabal's excellent site, Auditoire. Based on the serenely beautiful long takes in the trailer, this film scheduled for the upcoming Rotterdam Film Festival could be one of the best of 2011.

UPDATE 2/4: Just 3 days after posting this trailer, I learn that Sivaroj Kongsakul's Eternity is one of three new films to win a Tiger Award at Rotterdam. In the words of the jury, "With a great sense of cinematic duration, this film builds its own universe, finding its own pacing, so consistently, to tell its particular story. A film that seems on the surface to be about death but which is really about love, a beautiful and delicate love story."