Tropical Malady
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 1, 2005
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Strand Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sakda Kaewbuadee & Banlop Lomnoi | |
Directed by | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | |
Produced by | Charles de Meaux |
Major Awards:
Cannes 2004 -
Jury Prize: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
[The] feature shows the young filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul pushing at the limits of cinematic narrative with grace...
New York Times
It's not the kind of movie you simply leave behind in the theater. It will follow you home, leaving only a trail of soft, invisible paw prints.
Salon.com
The film evolves into something deeper, a story about the atavistic wildness within people.
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Washington Post
Rating: 4/4 --
An intriguing emotional and intellectual puzzle that made me feel exhilarated and contemplative.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 3.5/4 --
For an exquisite taste of sensory cinema, look no further.
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Seattle Times
What initially appears a vague and meandering plot line is actually our introduction into a sort of dream state where nothing is what it seems on the surface.
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East Bay Express
Image for image, this hour-long stretch provided the Cannes competition with its most rarefied and ravishing experience.
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Film Comment Magazine
Product Description:
At one point in TROPICAL MALADY, a woman tells the principle characters a traditional Thai story about ghosts and greed, and mentions the TV show WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE in the next breath. It's precisely that kind of disjunction that fuels this film from maverick director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON), who divides his tale into two sharply-contrasted halves that suggest genre codes while defying them. Opening on a group of soldiers posing with a dead body, the film slowly makes its way to a country home where a family takes the troops in, and eventually settles on the episodic courtship between handsome soldier Keng (Banlop Lomnoi), and bashful country boy Tong (Sakda Kaewbuadee), both non-actors. Their relationship unfolds in ecstatic, tender vignettes that leave much to the audience's imagination, but the chaste touches and huge smiles the young men share are cut short when Tong disappears into darkness. When the lights come up again Keng--or, as he is referred to now, the Soldier--is a player in the retelling of an old Thai fable, while Tong is now a wild, shape-shifting ghost. The two trail one another through a jungle filled with unearthly sounds, and the line between the pursuer and the pursued disappears. Eventually the Soldier receives unlikely counsel and, following the advice he receives, allows himself to be consumed and devoured by his love. Mystifying and utterly elusive, Weerasethakul's film resists allegorical or conventional interpretation, with a pace and inner logic that will challenge the patience of some, but is sure to reward those willing to travel the distance to the end.
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