Happy Old Year (2019)

A woman wants to reorganize her house and convert it into a home office. She will throw away anything that has been lying around unused. However, she faces a great challenge when she comes across some items that belonged to her ex-boyfriend.

Director:

Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit

Writer:

Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit

Stars:

Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying, Sunny Suwanmethanont, Sarika Sartsilpsupa

1 win & 2 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying	...	Jean
Sunny Suwanmethanont	...	Aim
Sarika Sartsilpsupa	...	Mi
Apasiri Chantrasmi	...	Jean's Mother
Thirawat Ngosawang	...	Jay
Patcha Kitchaicharoen	...	Pink
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Puangsoi Aksornsawang	...	Interviewer 1
Neennara Boonnithipaisit	...	Jean (Girl)
Nutda Chawawanid	...	Yok
Devid Keric	...	Foreigner by the Pool
Philaiwan Khamphirathat	...	Bam's Mother
Jiraphat Kidakarnpiphat	...	Boy 1
Cai Lianjie	...	Interviewer 2
Erika Manutham	...	Tidy Goddess
Olan Netrangsi	...	Postman

Storyline

Jean (Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying) wants to convert her house into a home office and she needs to majorly declutter and reorganize her entire house. Anything that has been lying around unused, she just simply throws all. However, Jean faces a great challenge when she comes across some items that belonged to Aim (Sunny Suwanmethanont), her ex-boyfriend. Although she has no use for the items, each one reminds her of a story that brings back memories, along with unresolved feelings that cannot be easily discarded by just dumping them into the garbage bag. Jean has to decide what to do with Aim's stuff. Should she just throw everything, keep everything, or return the items to their rightful owner to clear them completely from her house and her heart?

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Plot Keywords:

female protagonist | 

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Taglines:

A love story for those who want to move on but find it hard to let go.

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Did You Know?

Trivia

Official submission of Thailand for the 'Best International Feature Film' category of the 93rd Academy Awards in 2021.

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Connections

References Inception (2010)

User Reviews

Had potential

Summery no spoiler This movie is an attempt to explore human emotions without displaying meaning making it very pretentious.

Cinematography The cinematography is a little above average, I've seen film like Marriage Story that uses similar aesthetic to display nostalgia.

Story The story carry it self in a way that tries to make the audience think however it fail to do so by not giving things conclusion. It's like writing a sentence without putting a period. Sometime the film will create a meaningless silent that tries to give a message but it comes out very boring and pretentious, this can be said to the story and the script too. The ending did not had any conclusion or morale of the story.

Characters Actors were great you can really tell that they are good an showing emotions but even they could not save the film from it's bad screenplay and writing.

Before I saw the film I was really excited to see this movie after listening to the artist that collaborated with the movie "The Toys" however it turns out that the song that he made for the movie was not in the movie nor the credit meaning that it was just an advertisement to drag people to see this movie.

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site [Japan]

Country:

Thailand

Language:

Thai

Release Date:

26 December 2019 (Thailand)

Also Known As:

Happy Old Year

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$115,871

Company Credits

Production Co:

Very Sad Pictures, Happy Ending Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

113 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.50 : 1