A concise distillation of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's work, The Anthem consists of an opening shot in which conversations and entrances are filmed from a fixed position, followed by an elegant circular track around an indoor tennis court. Thematic and formal connections between the two shots abound, and the film is architectonic and clearly bifurcated but never strictly symmetrical. With characteristic elegance, Apichatpong fuses structural precision with an openness to spontaneous discovery.