Thai
Present Still Perfect : a queer Thai love story
Only recently we shared the announcement that GagaOOLala the largest queer Asian streaming service has now gone global making it the first and only queer Asian video-on-demand service in the world . (https:// queerguru.com/the-first-global-queer-asian-video-on-demand-service-is-launched/) Now hot on the heels of that Queerguru has just received two movies from new-wave Thai filmmaker Aam Anusorn Soisa-ngim…
Malila: The Farewell Flower
This visually beautiful movie from Thailand avoids a traditional narrative and relies heavily on mystical and magical elements to tell this deeply moving story about love and loss. Pich (Anuchit Sapanpong ) has returned home to his remote country village to attend his mother’s funeral even though he is hardly well himself having just refused…
Cemetery of Splendour
It has been six years since Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul swooped the Palme D’or at Cannes for his beguiling movie ‘Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives’, and now he is back with another mystical tale that is heavy on fantasy, and very light on an actual narrative. The filmmaker himself has actually described this film as being…
ONLY GOD FORGIVES
There’s an awful lot of violence, and a great deal of red, and hardly any screenplay and just a mere hint of emotion in Nicolas Winding Refn’s controversial new movie that the Critics have either vehemently panned or praised lavishly: there is no sitting on the fence on this one. Julien, a man of very…
