Fiction
SUD PRALAD
TROPICAL MALADY
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Thailand, FRA, DEU, I 2004
118 min
V'04
Tropical Malady is a remarkable experiment in vision and narrative. It begins innocuously enough in the familiar affectless manner of modern Asian cinema. Keng and Tong are, respectively, a farmer and an army reservist, who begin an intense friendship that deepens into love. Then the movie flips on to a higher level as one gets lost in the jungle and is pursued by a ghost before finally confronting a spirit in the form of a tiger. The final sequence, semi-dark and all but silent, recalls Apocalypse Now, but with a dark and hallucinatory twist. A beautiful and strange film. (Peter Bradshaw)
Credits
- Banlop Lomnoi - Itt
- Sakda Kaewbuadee
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Vichit Tanapanitch
- Jarin Pengpanitch
- Jean Louis Vialard
- Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr
- Lee Chatametikool
- Jacopo Quadrie
- Akekarat Homlaor
- Pilaitip Jamniam
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