The homosexual romantic crime drama Bangkok Love Story is playing at the 22nd London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.Winner of the best script award at this year's Subhanahongsa Awards, writer-director Poj Arnon's film is about a hitman tasked with assassinating a police informant. Instead, the shooter and the would-be victim shoot it out together and spend a couple of weeks lounging around on a Bangkok rooftop in their underwear and making love in the rain while the skytrain whizzes by. A subplot involving the hitman's HIV-positive brother deals with public perceptions of AIDS.
The film won the Grand Award at the 34th Brussels International Independent Film Festival, has played theatrically in Singapore. TLA Releasing has acquired it for North America, which will mean more festival appearances and/or limited runs and probably an eventual Region 1 DVD release.
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I've seen this movie few days ago and I found a transformed Bangkok in the leaden photography used. It's a enterely dramatic movie with all the drama category (sexual abuse, death, hiv, murder, suicide, shooting, contrasted love affair)leaded till the end with hopelessness.
ReplyDeleteApichatpong Weerasethakul have placed Tropical Malady in the country and used a legend to approach the thai population. Poj Arnon, instead, place the narration in the very middle of the city, among skyscrapers and railways to give a universal breath to the story.
The last feeling is that the story lost its personality and goes on like a videoclip.