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Film Review: Happy Old Year (2019) by Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit

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The world is Jean's oyster – but only seemingly. After spending three years in Sweden, she is coming back to open her studio in Bangkok. However, putting ideas into practice turns out to be more complicated than she could even expect. First of all, she has to convince her family to turn their old, cluttered house into a modern and minimalistic interior, and hence to get rid of all the objects they have gathered over the years. “Minimalism is like a Buddhist philosophy – it is all about letting go,” says Jean in the opening scene. What sounds so clear in theory, does not necessarily apply to real life that easily – especially when your family is frozen deep in time, your house looks rather like a prehistoric storeroom full of dusty trash, and on top of that some unwanted memories start hunting you. Jean has no intention of giving up though. She equips herself with a large pile of trash bags and starts a battle for the new better life, which is definitely not only about throwing away som

The world is Jean’s oyster – but only seemingly. After spending three years in Sweden, she is coming back to open her studio in Bangkok. However, putting ideas into practice turns out to be more complicated than she could even expect. First of all, she has to convince her family to turn their old, cluttered house into a modern and minimalistic interior, and hence to get rid of all the objects they have gathered over the years. “Minimalism is like a Buddhist philosophy – it is all about letting go,” says Jean in the opening scene. What sounds so clear in theory, does not necessarily apply to…

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