A pick-up truck driver leaves Kathmandu airport for a two-day drive with a delivery to a remote mountain village. On the high road, a solitary figure slowly makes his way, wheeling a small red suitcase toward the same village.
In The Red Suitcase Nepalese director Fidel Devkota calmly, quietly shares a fascinating two-day road trip from the Kathmandu airport to the small village of Beyul nestled in Nepal’s stately mountains. That the landscape dwarfs the pickup truck is fitting for this snapshot of the unnamed driver’s lack of agency in a shattered modern world. Devkota interweaves fables, myths, and allegories to effectively deliver a uniquely mesmerizing, haunting tale with minimal dialogue but maximum impact.
Dir/scr. Fidel Devkota. Nepal/Sri Lanka. 2023. 87mins Political protest, poetically-toned parable and an eerie streak of the supernatural make for an inconsistent but undeniably individual package ...
