Saturday, May 27, 2006

Last Life in the Universe: in Global Market

Another Thai film which had been globally distributed. I'd just watched it second time around by DVD. It's a strange feeling watching this, looks desparate in the beginning but gradually filled with hopes along the way to the end. In Rotterntomatoes website quotes "Lost in Translation for grown-ups" and with other comments the film go well in international level, not in Thai. For your information: Pen-Ek's, the director, film most of the time welcomed by the internatonal but not with the local market as the story was not planned for "block buster" at the first place, also he strongly keeps his own style of directing (as he interviewed). But once he turn to do a very local localstory adapted from a paperback love story called "Mon Rak Transistor", the film went very well in the box office both in Bangkok and other provinces (comparing to his other works, of course!). Anyway, both are good.

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