Capital Celluloid 2023 — Day 9: Mon Jan 9

Tropical Malady (Weerasethakul, 2004): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 8.40pm


This film, which is also being screened on January 7th, is part of the Sight and Sound Greatest Films poll season. Full details here.

Chicago Reader review:
The third work and second narrative feature of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Blissfully Yours), the prodigiously gifted Thai filmmaker who studied painting and filmmaking at the School of the Art Institute—a spellbinding, beautiful, enigmatic film with a mysterious, allusive two-part structure. The first section tracks the hesitant, playful relationship between a shy provincial ice cream truck driver (Sakda Kaewbuadee) and a dashing soldier (Banlop Lomnoi); the astonishing second section is set deep in the Thai jungle and includes an abstract, wordless pursuit of a ghost tiger. The two parts are linked by lyrical compositions and an almost painful sense of longing and regret. Viewers open to a new way of imagining film are sure to be enthralled by this singular young voice.
Patrick McGavin

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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