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"Tropical Malady" is two distinct halves, divided into two complementary and wholly necessary pieces. The first half is a love story. A young soldier, Keng (Banlop Lomnoi), is assigned to patrol the Thai forests, and he falls for a country boy, Tong (Sakda Kaewbuadee), a worker in a rura...

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Corporate Authors: Anna Sanders Films (Firm), TIFA (Firm), Downtown Pictures, Thoke+Moebius Film (Firm), RAI Cinema (Firm), Fabrica Cinema (Firm), Strand Releasing (Firm), Strand Releasing Home Video (Firm)
Other Authors: Meaux, Charles de, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 1970-, Banlop Lō̜mnō̜i, Sakdā Kǣobūadī
Format: Video DVD
Language:Thai
Language Notes:In Thai with optional subtitles in English.
Published: [Bangkok] : [Culver City, Calif.] : TIFA ; Strand Releasing, [2005]
Edition:Director's vision ed.
Subjects:
Thailand. > Kō̜ngthap Bok > Gays > Drama.
Gay couples > Drama.
Missing persons > Drama.
Folklore > Thailand > Drama.
Gay men > Drama > Thailand > Gay men > Drama.
Shamans > Thailand > Drama.
Villages > Thailand > Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Motion pictures, Thai.
Foreign films.
Feature films > Thailand.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Summary:"Tropical Malady" is two distinct halves, divided into two complementary and wholly necessary pieces. The first half is a love story. A young soldier, Keng (Banlop Lomnoi), is assigned to patrol the Thai forests, and he falls for a country boy, Tong (Sakda Kaewbuadee), a worker in a rural Thai village's ice plant. In the second half, that love story has been swallowed by a folk tale, in which the spirit of a man has found its way into the body of a tiger. A soldier patrols the forest, looking for a villager who has disappeared while a voice-over relates the story of a shaman who has the power to turn himself into a tiger. Is the soldier Keng? Is the missing villager -- or, stranger yet, the tiger -- Tong?
Item Description:Originally produced as a Thai motion picture in 2004.
Special features: Commentary track [audio only; by director and film critic Chuck Stephens]; Deleted scenes [unsubtitled] (14 min.); Story boards [slide show]; Photo gallery [slide show]; Other Strand titles [previews] (8 min.).
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; letterbox.
Audience:MPAA rating: Not rated.
Awards:Apichatpong Weerasethakul, winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2004.
Production Credits:Directors of photography, Vichit Tanapanitch, Jarin Pengpanitch, Jean-Louis Vialard ; edited by Lee Chatametikool ; subtitles by Lee Chatametikool.