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Tropical malady [digital videodisc] / Strand Releasing ; Anna Sanders Films and TIFA, Downtown Pictures and Thoke+Moebius Film ; in association with Rai Cinema, Fabrica Cinema ; produced by Charles de Meaux ; conceived by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

[Bangkok] : TIFA ; [Culver City, CA] : Strand Releasing Home Video, [2005]

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Villages -- Thailand -- Drama.

Motion pictures, Thai.

1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Director's vision ed.

"Tropical Malady" is two distinct halves, divided into two complementary and wholly necessary pieces. The first half is a love story. A young soldier, Keng (Banlop Lomnoi), is assigned to patrol the Thai forests, and he falls for a country boy, Tong (Sakda Kaewbuadee), a worker in a rural Thai village's ice plant. In the second half, that love story has been swallowed by a folk tale, in which the spirit of a man has found its way into the body of a tiger. A soldier patrols the forest, looking for a villager who has disappeared while a voice-over relates the story of a shaman who has the power to turn himself into a tiger. Is the soldier Keng? Is the missing villager -- or, stranger yet, the tiger -- Tong?

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2004.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

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