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Dir: Thomas Clay.
Cast: Nicolas Bro, Pimwalee Thampanyasan, Petch Mekoh, Natee Srimanta, Somrak Khamsing, Art Supawatt Purdy
Description: Danish filmmaker Tobias Christensen meets a Thai beauty in the notorious Soi Cowboy red light district in Bangkok and offers to drag her out of the slums if she marries him in the west. She agrees and Tobias spirits her away to suburban boredom where the unconventional relationship settles into humdrum routine. When husband and wife make a trip to the popular beauty spot of Ayutthaya, they cross paths with underworld lackey Cha, who is searching for his missing older brother.
Country: THAI/UK. 2008. 116mins
Weirdly enthralling: Soi Cowboy is set in Thailand
The young British director Thomas Clay caused a major stir at Cannes with his 2005 debut, The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael, a talented work with a strenuously violent last reel.
His new film, made in Thailand, also has its nasty moments, but mostly maintains an artful minimalism you will either find subtle or terminally boring, as an obese Danish man visits the ruins of Ayutthaya with his pregnant Thai girlfriend, apparently having been told to kill a man.
He decapitates his prey and takes the bloody trophy to his boss in a seedy nightclub before being shot dead as he counts his bounty.
Is this some kind of homage to the work of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the intriguing Thai director of Tropical Malady? Almost certainly, but it’s hard to imagine many people caring
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