This tickled me at times as well creating a rather sombre and upsetting setting. Happy Old Year is about an interior decorator who wants to clear out her house to create an office only to unearth some hidden truths about her past and herself. Jean learns about herself and how her actions affect others through something simply as throwing away old, seemingless useless items. A piano, an old camera; everything can have meaning to someone else. This is manifested someway in the form of her former relationship, something that she has tried to hide from herself and in her own home. It’s both hidden and unseen and yet we don’t want to depart from it. That is true selfishness.

Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit does a masterful job at making the little moments count. The camera work, the work with the cinematography to make everything seem so congested and full, the choices of pauses and frames that we focus on. In a true to cinema formation, the art of the mise-en-scene matches the acting on screen.