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Soi Cowboy causes a stir
By
Derek Malcolm
12 Jun 2009
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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