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>>> TROPICAL MALADY
  (Titre original Thaïlandais : Sud Pralad)
   
Prix du Jury
Festival de Cannes 2004
Grand Prix
Tokyo Filmex 2004
 
Something magical is in the air. Times are happy and love is uncomplicated for young soldier Keng and country boy Tong. Pleasant evenings with Tong's family, song-filled nights in town... Then life is disrupted by a disappearance. And some kind of wild beast has been slaughtering cows. Local legends say a human can somehow be transformed into another creature... Then begins a tale of a soldier who goes alone into the heart of the jungle, where myth is often real.
   
Auteur :

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Réalisateur :

Apichatpong Weerasethakul ("Blissfully Yours")

Interprêtes principaux :

Banlop Lomnoi
Sakda Kaewbuadee

Producteur :

Charles de Meaux

   
Genre : Fable fantastique
Langue : Thailandais
Statut : Achevé
   
Sociétés de production :
Anna Sanders Films (France)
Kick the Machine (Thailande)
TIFA (Thailande)
Downtown Pictures (Italie)
Thoke+Moebius Film (Allemagne)
en association avec Backup Films
Sociétés de distribution : Celluloid Dreams (Ventes Internationales)
Ad Vitam (France)
Istituto Luce (Italie)
Strand (USA)
   
Critiques (extraits) :  
 
« Tropical Malady" takes the viewer on a mysterious and sporadically fascinating trip into the darkness of the human heart and Thai legend »
 
Variety - Deborah Young
 
« Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s fable Tropical Malady  is a wonderful exploration of a perennial theme: what makes a human being more than an animal? (…) Along the way, the director gives evidence of a wonderful eye for the ironies that proliferate in contemporary Thai culture. (…) A gorgeous, transporting fugue that brilliantly combines transcendent poetic language, deep spirituality, glorious visuals, and sounds and music that reverberate on a profound level. »
 
Screen International - Peter Brunette
 
« Tropical Malady is without contest the most astounding film of Cannes 2004. And it is also, undoubtedly, among the greatest of these last years. »
 
Les cahiers du cinéma - Antoine Thirion
   
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