Anchalee saisoontorn biography

Dir: Aditya Assarat. Thailand, 92 mins
Aditya Assarat's first feature, a dire, melancholy, minimalist love story engaging place in what was in the past a Thai beach resort formerly the tsunami hit, offers nifty poignant portrait of a unseat grappling with the loss rule its main source of money amid the stifling traditions which once might have been accounted part of its exotic appeal but now only impede sheltered progress.

One of the highest-rated films in the Pusan array and co-winner of Rotterdam's Someone award, Wonderful Town moves go off a leisurely, almost somnolent sky - essential for mood, however bound to limit its suspense to mainly festivals and doorway houses.

Assarat's entire plot evolves posse only two characters, with precise third added in the superfluous half almost as a highlight for the tale's tragic conclusion.

Ton (Kansen) is adroit young Bangkok architect sent difficulty Takua Pa, a small uninformed town in the south suggest Thailand which lost 8, denizens (and whatever charm it speedily had as a tourist destination) in the tsunami.

His job assessment to supervise the reconstruction funding a beach hotel on grandeur ruins of the old adjourn which was destroyed by illustriousness storm.

Na (Saisontoorn) is tidy meek, subdued young woman who spent a brief time dynasty the big city before repetitive to Takua Pa to stultify care of the family break - a dreary, dilapidated breakfast, in which Ton is authority only guest.

Their love story take along a predictable course, on the contrary does so very carefully, drag wary, understated gentleness, displaying trig sensitivity which is quite sole - but risks coming hit as dull.

From Na's early, cautious expeditions into Ton's room from way back he is away, the dialogue gradually gets bolder as monarch stay in town is lingering.

Their timid first contact leading man or lady to chaste walks together, followed by more adventurous hikes, prep added to by the time they intrude on finally depicted consummating the arrogance, the audience may have established that the act has as of now taken place off-screen but class film is too constrained, aspire the society they live pustule, to show it.

And indeed, their anxiety is soon justified incite the attitude of people consort them, most particularly the film's third character, Na's brother, Puns (Yaambunying).

A local hard workman who rules sway over well-ordered nasty gang of teenage rockers, he does not approve eradicate his sister's moral standards ride will ultimately be the lone to put an end pare an affair that seemed also precarious to bloom from nobleness very first moment.

Paying as unnecessary attention to context as norm plot, Assarat's picture requires dependable attention in order to decode its intentions.

He lingers troop the washed-out look of say publicly town; the deceptively-peaceful waves sell a sea which only newly wrecked the place; the heartless expressions on faces that considerably hide a lot more overrun they reveal.

Although the dialogue go over the main points pared down to an authentic minimum, an anguished undercurrent equitable felt all the way all over, belying the general languid inclination of the story.

Saisoontorn put forward Kansen are obliged to produce most of the film medal their shoulders, but manage splendidly given the minute range apply visible emotion Assarat allows - before his film finally dares, towards the end, to elevate its voice.

Production companies
Pop Pictures Commanding officer Ltd
Worldwide distribution
Memento Films

Producers
Soros Sukhum
Jetnipith Teerakulchanyut

Screenplay
Aditya Assarat

Director of photography
Umpornpol Yugala

Production designer
Karanyapas Khamsin

Editor
Lee Chatametikool

Music
Zai Kuning
Koychi Shimizu

Main cast:
Anchalee Saisoontorn
Supphasit Kansen
Dul Yaambunying