Another under-the-radar movie that taps into Thai fissures will finally screen at home.
Nine months after its premiere in Japan, Thai-language film Cloud Cuckoo Country will show next month at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center – marking its first screening in Thailand – for only one day, though.
The movie explores deeply entrenched political ideologies through two women and former lovers. Its plot revolves around an unnamed, closeted conservative (Nantanat Thakudkul) who runs into her former girlfriend (Chayatanus “Cheraim” Saradatta), who is now a progressive journalist.
Over the course of the film, the two walk around Bangkok’s old quarter, catching up on career, family, and love life. That’s before the conversation shifts to the reason they broke up in the first place: politics.
When it released a trailer in February, Cloud Cuckoo Country…
