Tropical Malady
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1h 54m
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 114 mins | 2004
Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes, this is the movie that gained Apichatpong’s distinctive, dreamy vision a new level of recognition on the international stage. A bifurcated narrative, with no clear connection between the film’s two halves, one of which depicts the budding queer romance between a soldier and a villager in rural Thailand; the other, a soldier as he’s stalked by the spirit of a tiger shaman.
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