Festivals - Sundance Film Festival 2021 : One for the road will have its world premiere

By Mulder, 01 january 2021

Boss lives a seemingly charmed life as a popular bartender in New York City, with an endless line of female customers after hours. One night, his estranged friend Aood calls from Bangkok with the news that he’s dying and asks Boss to come home. As the two travel down memory lane throughout Thailand, returning items to Aood’s exes, their pasts and reasons for their broken brotherhood are exposed. But Boss doesn’t know the whole story, and when Aood has one last gift to return, it might destroy their relationship forever.

With a perfectly balanced mix of the sorrow, joy, nostalgia, and romance you would expect in a film produced by Wong Kar Wai, One for the Road is a cinematic treat, much like the mouth-watering cocktails that are highlighted throughout. Breakthrough performances from Tor Thanapob, Ice Natara, and Violette Wautier, along with gorgeous and energetic direction from Baz Poonpiriya, take us through the emotionally wrought yet hopeful time between the flower of youth and the hard-earned realization that all things end.

Synopsis :
Boss, a high end club owner living in New York, who receives a call from his friend in Thailand, Aood, revealing he is in the last stages of terminal cancer.

One for the road (China/Hong Kong/Thailand)
Directed by Baz Poonpiriya
Produced by Wong Kar Wai
Co-Producers : Jacky Pang Yee Wah, Alice Chan, Amorn Nilthep
Executive Producer : Chan Ye Cheng
Written by Baz Poonpiriya, Nottapon Boonprakob, Puangsoi Aksornsawang
Starring Tor Thanapob, Ice Natara, Violette Wautier, Aokbab Chutimon, Ploi Horwang, Noon Siraphun
Music by Vichaya Vatanasapt
Production Designer : Patchara Lertkai
Cinematography : Phaklao Jiraungkoonkun
Edited by Chonlasit Upanigkit
Distributed by Block 2 Distribution Limited
Release date :
Running time : 136 minutes

Premiere : jan. 29 - 4:00am // Second screening : jan. 30 - 4:00pm (local time)

(Source : press release)