The Long Walk
Across Asia • 1h 55m
Directed by Mattie Do • Drama • With Yannawoutthi Chanthalungsy, Vilouna Phetmany, Por Silatsa • 2021 • 116 minutes
The Long Walk centers on an elderly man who has the power to travel back in time thanks to a mysterious companion whose death he witnessed 50 years earlier. With his new power, he decides to trespass into his own past and set in motion a plan to preempt his mother’s terminal suffering, and ultimately appease his soul.
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