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GreenCine Daily - ”Brit helmer Thomas Clay’s sophomore feature, Soi Cowboy, demonstrates a growing maturity,” writes Leslie Felperin in Variety.
“This slowburning, enigmatic drama, mostly about a Danish man and a Thai woman awkwardly living together in Bangkok, is deeper and more likeable than Clay’s controversial debut, The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael. Gone are the latter film’s shock tactics, allowing Clay’s cinematic sophistication to sparkle all the better.”
“That Clay has a fondness for the ennui generated by simply waiting is clear, as both Robert Carmichael and Soi Cowboy share a structural similarity in which the running time is used against the viewer in an attempt to generate a quiet before the storm-type anticipation that cannot but end with a violent catharsis,” writes Boyd van Hoeij at european-films.net. “The problem with Soi Cowboy is that this quiet is awfully quiet. Antonioni, to whom this film pays ‘indirect homage’ as the director puts it, made ennui exciting cinematographically, but Clay’s screenplay and editing leave out almost anything that might make the two main characters worthwhile to take an interest in for an hour or two.”… [Full Story]
