US EditionLGBTQ Thai Ghost Story Wins Prize in Cannes
- Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, the film director, received the highest honor in Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday for his unconventional gay comedy, 'A Useful Ghost'.
- He aimed to expand Thai queer cinema beyond typical love stories amid a backdrop of political unrest and the 2010 army crackdown on 'Red Shirt' protesters.
- 'A Useful Ghost' stars Davika 'Mai' Hoorne, a model and actress with 18 million Instagram followers, playing a woman who returns as a ghost haunting a vacuum cleaner to protect her family.
- The film blends comedy and political symbolism by depicting ghosts of civilians killed during the 2010 protests, while Ratchapoom described it as a meditation on how Thailand erases uncomfortable histories.
- The award's success highlights the need for diverse queer narratives with political dimension in Thailand, which recently legalized same-sex marriage and faces censorship challenges.
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Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke has just made history as the first Thai director to win the top prize at Cannes parallel section Critics’ Week with his debut feature A Useful Ghost, winning the inaugural AMI Paris Grand Prize. Thai actress, model and influencer Davika Hoorne stars as a woman who dies of dust pollution and then returns as […]
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