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Title Tropical malady / Strand Releasing ; Anna Sanders Films and TIFA, Downtown Pictures and Thoke+Moebius Film ; in association with Rai Cinema, Fabrica Cinema ; produced by Charles de Meaux ; conceived by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Publication Info. [Bangkok] : TIFA ; [Culver City, CA] : Strand Releasing, [2005]
©2005

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Video  PN1995.9.H55 T76753 2005    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Edition Director's vision ed.
Description 1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
video file
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.
Thailand. Kō̜ngthap Bok.
Gays.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Gay couples -- Drama.
Gay couples.
Missing persons -- Drama.
Missing persons.
Folklore -- Thailand -- Drama.
Folklore.
Thailand.
Gay men -- Thailand -- Drama.
Gay men.
Shamans -- Thailand -- Drama.
Shamans.
Villages -- Thailand -- Drama.
Villages.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Subject Gay couples.
Gay men.
Genre/Form Drama.
Added Author Meaux, Charles de.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 1970-
Banlop Lō̜mnō̜i.
Sakdā Kǣobūadī.
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)
Standard No. 712267250523
Music No. #2505-2 Strand Releasing Home Video