Edition |
Director's vision ed. |
Description |
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
digital |
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optical |
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video file |
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DVD video |
System Details |
DVD; letterbox. |
Note |
Originally produced as a Thai motion picture in 2004. |
Cast |
Banlop Lomnoi, Sakda Kaewbuadee. |
Credits |
Directors of photography, Vichit Tanapanitch, Jarin Pengpanitch, Jean-Louis Vialard ; edited by Lee Chatametikool ; subtitles by Lee Chatametikool. |
Audience |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
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? |
Contents |
Opening -- City -- Dog -- Close friends -- Little monk -- Day together -- Tiger -- Following tracks -- Ghost -- Prey & companion -- Ghost world -- Credits. |
Note |
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.). |
Awards |
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2004. |
Language |
In Thai with optional subtitles in English. |
Subject |
Thailand. Kō̜ngthap Bok -- Gays -- Drama.
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Thailand. Kō̜ngthap Bok. |
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Gays. |
Genre/Form |
Drama.
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Subject |
Gay couples -- Drama.
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Gay couples. |
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Missing persons -- Drama.
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Missing persons. |
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Folklore -- Thailand -- Drama.
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Folklore. |
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Thailand. |
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Gay men -- Thailand -- Drama.
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Gay men. |
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Shamans -- Thailand -- Drama.
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Shamans. |
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Villages -- Thailand -- Drama.
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Villages. |
Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Feature films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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Subject |
Gay couples. |
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Gay men. |
Genre/Form |
Drama.
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Added Author |
Meaux, Charles de.
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 1970-
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Banlop Lō̜mnō̜i.
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Sakdā Kǣobūadī.
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Anna Sanders Films (Firm)
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TIFA (Firm)
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Downtown Pictures.
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Thoke+Moebius Film (Firm)
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RAI Cinema (Firm)
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Fabrica Cinema (Firm)
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Strand Releasing (Firm)
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Strand Releasing Home Video (Firm)
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Standard No. |
712267250523 |
Music No. |
#2505-2 Strand Releasing Home Video |
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