‘One for the Road’ Review: Thai dramedy soars early, crashes late

Like a fine cocktail, the most intoxicating sequences in the boozy, woozy, swoony end-of-life dramedy “One for the Road” contain just the right amount of each of those cinematic flavors, or otherwise delivers them in the right order: The heat of reunion, followed by a rush of spiky farce and finally a heavy head-rush of recognition.

But there comes a point where the bartender in question – Thai director Baz Poonpiriya – mixes up his ingredients, and wooziness becomes the dominant sensation in a movie that goes all in on the depths of melodrama that it spends the better part of its first half skillfully…