Invisible Waves

Kyoji, once a hired assassin and today a sous-chef in a Hong Kong restaurant, is forced to kill his lover, the wife of the restaurant owner, after the affair is discovered. As “compensation,” the boss sends him on a cruise to Phuket. But his room on the ship turns out to be a hole, and some suspicious characters have their sights on him… Pen-Ek Ratanruang‘s latest film combines cinematic styles, while in his usual vein, death resides alongside humor and atmosphere takes precedence over plot. “If Jacques Tati had ever made a gangster thriller, it probably would have looked like [this],” writes Kirk Honeycutt of the “Hollywood Reporter.”