THURSDAY, March 28, 2024
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Ready for the Apichatpong Weekend?

Ready for the Apichatpong Weekend?

France has again named Thai film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul a Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, with the medal to be presented by the ambassador, Gilles Garachon, at Alliance Francaise tomorrow (December 15).

This is the third time Apichatpong has been honoured as a commander of France’s Order of the Arts and Letters.

The medal presentation kicks off Apichatpong Weekend, during which his movies will be screened along with his own favourite French film.

There will also be two compilations of short films rarely shown in Thailand, as selected by the director, and a discussion about “ghosts, cinema and society”.

The Alliance will stage an outdoor screening of Apichatpong’s “Sud Saneha” (“Tropical Malady”), which won him an award at the Cannes International Film Festival. He also won the top prize at Cannes in 2010 for “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives”.

Tickets for the Apichatpong Weekend are available at http://AFThailande.org/en/cinema-agenda.

The full schedule:

FRIDAY, 8pm (tomorrow, December 15) – Apichatpong will be present to show short films he selected, in Thai with English subtitles. They are “The Anthem” (2006), a trailer for “Cindi” (2011), “Empire” (2010), “Luminous People” (2007), “Monsoon” (2011), “Cactus River” (2012), “Footprints” (2014) and “Worldly Desires” (2005)

SATURDAY, 3pm – Discussion with Apichatpong on “The Figuration and Modality of the Ghostly Figures” in his movies, moderated by Srinakharinwirot University visiting lecturer Vimolnat Thongsaard.

SATURDAY, 6pm – More of Apichatpong’s selected short films: “The Anthem”, “La Punta” (2013), “Mobile Men” (2008), “Ablaze” (2016), “Vampire” (2008) and “Haunted Houses” (2001).

SUNDAY – “Echoes of French Cinema” features a screening at 4pm of “Bad Blood”, the director’s favourite French movie, and at 7pm his own “Tropical Malady”.

 

 

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