Showing posts with label Country: Thailand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Country: Thailand. Show all posts

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)

| Tuesday, August 30, 2011 | 0 comments |
 AKA ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ (Thai), Lung Bunmi Raluek Chat (RTGS)

Directed by
Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Written by
Phra Sripariyattiweti (inspired by the book of)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul


Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave -- the birthplace of his first life...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588895/

Syndromes and a Century (2006)

| Sunday, September 23, 2007 | 0 comments |
AKA Sang sattawat

Directed by
Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Written by
Apichatpong Weerasethakul

 
The film is a tribute to the director's parents and is divided into two parts, with the characters and dialogue in the second half essentially the same as the first, but the settings and outcome of the stories are different. The first part is set in a hospital in rural Thailand, while the second half is set in a Bangkok medical center.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477731/

Tropical Malady (2004)

| Sunday, July 31, 2005 | 0 comments |
AKA Sud pralad

Directed by
Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Written by
Apichatpong Weerasethakul




Keng (played by Banlop Lomnoi), is a soldier assigned to a post in a small city in rural Thailand. The troops' main duties, it seems, is to investigate the mysterious slaying of cattle at local farms. While in the field one day, Keng meets Tong (played by Sakda Kaewbuadee). Later, Keng sees Tong riding in a truck in town. The two men have made a connection and embark on a romance, taking trips in the countryside.

Then one night, the country boy wanders off into the dark. The film's narrative abruptly shifts to a different story, about a soldier (played by Lomnoi again) sent alone into the woods to find a lost villager. In the woods, the soldier encounters the spirit of a tiger shaman (played by Kaewbuadee again), who taunts and bedevils the soldier, causing him to run through the woods and become lost and isolated himself.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381668/