Thai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke positions himself to be the next Yorgos Lanthimos with this smart and funny Cannes ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Couched in a similarly fantastical and appliance-based frame/love story between a man with a new vacuum (Wisarut Homhuan) and the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grief and ghosts aren’t new territory for any national cinema — and this is perhaps particularly true of Thailand. But, “A Useful ...
EXCLUSIVE: Thai cinema returns to Cannes parallel section Critics’ Week for the first time in many years this May with Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s intriguing romantic drama A Useful Ghost, and ...
Rich, complex films that can be crassly oversimplified because of a sex scene between a human and a machine have had a great run at Cannes in recent years. Now, Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's ...
A ghost-possessed vacuum cleaner might sound like standard horror fare, but in the hands of Thai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, it transforms into a sly commentary on pollution, power dynamics, ...
Grief and ghosts aren’t new territory for any national cinema — and this is perhaps particularly true of Thailand. But, “A Useful Ghost” is an entertaining and moving – if also somewhat sprawling – ...
A ghost-possessed vacuum cleaner might sound like standard horror fare, but in the hands of Thai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, it transforms into a sly commentary on pollution, power dynamics, ...
Absurd inanimate object cinema is having a moment. Forget the simplistic joke of killer-tire movie Rubber; the forthcoming indie comedy By Design, the Sundance film from last year where Juliette Lewis ...