Ploy
VIEW EVENT DETAILSPart of the film series
Blissfully Thai
Dir. Pen-ek Ratanaruang. 2007. 107 min. 35mm. English subtitles.
Post-screening Q&A with director.
A death in the family brings husband and wife, Wit and Dang, back to Bangkok from America. Their body language and the lack of exchange suggest a rocky marriage. Jetlagged and restless, Wit encounters a young lady, Ploy, in the hotel bar while she is waiting for her mother to arrive from Stockholm. The couple and this stranger soon find themselves trapped in a hotel room, where paranoia and jealousy force the couple to confront their dying relationship. Seamlessly moving in-between dream and reality, this unsettling marital drama mirrors the characters' state of sleep deprivation.
FIPRESCI Award, Cinefan-Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema
"A tasty slice of cinema, by turns oneiric, erotic, funny, and emotionally perceptive." — Lee Marshall, Screen Daily
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Pen-ek Ratanaruang (b. 1962) was born in Bangkok and lived in New York from 1977 to 1985. He studied at Pratt Institute, majoring in Art History. He later worked as a freelance illustrator and a graphic designer. He spent 5 years as an art director before directing television commercials in Thailand. Pen-ek has won major film awards including Special Jury Prize at Bangkok International Film Festival for Nymph (2009), FIPRESCI Prize at Hong Kong International Film Festival for 6ixtynin9 (1999), and Jury Prize at Fant-Asia Film Festival for Last Life in the Universe (2003). Director Filmography (features): Nymph (2009), Ploy (2007), Invisible Waves (2006), Last Life in the Universe (2003), Mon-rak Transistor (2001), 6ixtynin9 (1999), Fun Bar Karaoke (1997).
This series is presented by Asia Society in association with Cineaste.
Major support for this film series is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Thai-US Partnership Program of Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Thai Artists Alliance.
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