Wonderful Town
by Aditya Assarat

ROTTERDAM 2008 – TIGER AWARD

PUSAN 2007  – NEW CURRENTS

English Title :
Wonderful Town
Original Title : Wonderful Town
Country : Thailand
Year of production : 2007
Duration : 92’
Genre : Feature
   

« The film is about a town that tries to destroy the beauty that it cannot have for itself.  Can a town be wonderful again? Wonderful Town, perhaps the most widely liked film for most festival critics and programmers this year in Pusan, …  « a simple and fluent love story made realistically with a cinematically impressive and rigorous style. » SCREEN INTERNATIONAL

synopsis

Takua Pa is a small town in the South of Thailand. Ever since the tsunami, people have lost their jobs and remember better times in the past.

One day a stranger comes to town. His name is Ton, he is an architect. He rents a room in a small hotel owned by Na. They begin to have a secret love affair. The town finds out about it, people are bored and angry. And now they have found an enemy, a person they can blame.

Wit is Na's younger brother, the town gang leader. He loves his sister but cannot bear to see another person's happiness. He is the one that will lead the town to destroy this stranger.

The fim is about a town that tries to destroy the beauty that it cannot have for itself. Can a town be wonderful again?

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