South Korean film in the chase
THAI DIRECTOR Banjong Pisanthanakun ("Pee Mak", "Hello Stranger", "Shutter") will screen one of his favourite films at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre tomorrow as part of the BACC's ongoing "Cinema Diverse: Director's Choice" series.
Supported by the Korean Cultural Centre in Thailand, the movie is “The Chaser”, a terrific crime thriller from 2008 that was the feature debut by South Korean director Na Hong-jin. He’ll be in attendance for a talk with Banjong afterward.
Registration opens at 4.30pm, with the screening at 5.30 in the fifth-floor auditorium. For more details, check www.BACC.or.th.
Also showing
Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand – The embassy of Belgium brings the beer and cheese on Monday night for a 7pm screening of “Two Days, One Night” (“Deux Jours, Une Nuit”), the latest drama by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Marion Cotillard, an Oscar nominee for her role, portrays a woman in a fight for her job. And on Wednesday, is a documentary and panel talk “Thirty Years On: The Killing of Neil Davis and Bill Latch”, covering the 1985 attempted coup by the “Young Turks”. For more details, see FCCThai.com.
Alliance Francaise – A novice actor and a veteran director form an unlikely friendship in “Maestro”, a 2014 comedy-drama directed and co-written by Lea Fazer. It screens at 7pm on Wednesday. For details, see AFThailande.org.
Take note
A controversial film is set for release next week, “Gerontophilia”, by the taboo-challenging cult director Bruce LaBruce. Set for the Lido, it’s being brought in by the new indie distribution shingle Doo Nang Took Wan, run by Ken Thapanan Wichitrattakarn, who previously handled the local release of the Brazilian coming-of-age gay drama “The Way He Looks”.
