Tropical Malady

Tropical Malady Thai or Sud pralad RTGS Satpralat lit. monster is a 2004 Thai romantic psychological drama film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. It is a film in two segments the first part a romance between two men, and the second a mysterious tale about a soldier lost in the woods, bedeviled by the spirit of a shaman. It won the Jury Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and was the first Thai film to be in the main competition at Cannes. It is also the first Thai film to win a prize at any of the A festivals.

Then one night, the country boy wanders off into the dark. The films narrative abruptly shifts to a different story, about a soldier played by Lomnoi again sent alone into the woods to find a lost villager. In the woods, the soldier encounters the spirit of a tiger shaman played by Kaewbuadee again, who taunts and bedevils the soldier, causing him to run through the woods and become lost and isolated himself.At the press screening at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, several audience members left before the film was over and some of those who stayed until the end booed it. The film received generally poor reviews from such industry journals as Variety and Hollywood Reporter, but then won the Jury Prize from the jury headed by Quentin Tarantino and has been generally met with favorable reviews since then. ........

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