Taklee Genesis

On a trip home to her ailing mother, Stella is contacted via radio waves by her long-lost American father, now stranded in a different spacetime configuration. To bring him back, Stella must embark on a time-hopping odyssey across seven millennia. 

Thirty years after the mysterious disappearance of her American father in the forest, Stella returns to her provincial home to take care of her ailing mother. Her long-held belief that her father is out there somewhere is confirmed when, one night, he contacts her. Not only is he alive, but in the spacetime configuration he is stranded in, it has only been half-an-hour since the incident in the forest. To bring him back, Stella must embark on a time-travelling odyssey across seven millennia.

Zombies, cavemen, kaijus and forest demons populate the capacious universe of Thai filmmaker Chookiat Sakveerakul’s mind-bending sci-fi action-adventure Taklee Genesis. Grafting geeky scientific concepts onto indigenous spiritual lore and real historical events, Sakveerakul engineers a densely knit time-hopping saga that feels at once international and local. 

Stella’s simple mission to rescue her father runs up against the desires and struggles of other individuals and groups, all equally valid and morally pressing. This entanglement results in freakish short-circuits between disparate epochs, allowing the film to orchestrate whacky cross-connections and textural contrasts. Breathless and breathtaking, Taklee Genesis revels in creating new worlds and smashing them against one another.

–  Srikanth Srinivasan

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