UPDATED! Thailand's THE OUTRAGE Channels RASHOMON Through THE BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR
[UPDATED with an English subtitled version of the trailer! Makes an already intriguing project look pretty much unmissable!]
Hitting Thai screens in September, Pantewanop Tewakul's The Outrage promises to be one of the more intriguing, high end period pieces to emerge from Asia this year.
Tewakul is one of the most acclaimed arthouse directors in Thailand, his 2010 effort Eternity proving a surprising critical and commercial success. With Shutter star Ananda Everingham in the lead, Eternity tested Thailand's new rating system with its story of forbidden love and established Tewakul as a director who could satisfy the masses as well as the critics.
For his new effort The Outrage (U Mong Pa Meung, อุโมงค์ผาเมือง หนังตัวอย่าง) Tewakul once again casts Everingham in a key role, surrounding him with a high end cast that also includes Ong Bak's Mum Jokmok. But the style here is quite different from Eternity. While that film was based on an acclaimed novel Tewakul here casts his gaze on one of cinema's all time greats, adapting the story of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon and infusing it with a sensibility that reminds me very much of Ronny Yu's The Bride With White Hair.
A murder mystery told from multiple viewpoints with a strong supernatural element the production values here are absolutely fabulous, certainly the strongest I've seen from a Thai fantasy period piece since Nonzee Nimibutr's Queens Of Langkasuka - also starring Everingham - and arguably stronger than that. The trailer is absolutely fabulous, check it below.
Tewakul is one of the most acclaimed arthouse directors in Thailand, his 2010 effort Eternity proving a surprising critical and commercial success. With Shutter star Ananda Everingham in the lead, Eternity tested Thailand's new rating system with its story of forbidden love and established Tewakul as a director who could satisfy the masses as well as the critics.
For his new effort The Outrage (U Mong Pa Meung, อุโมงค์ผาเมือง หนังตัวอย่าง) Tewakul once again casts Everingham in a key role, surrounding him with a high end cast that also includes Ong Bak's Mum Jokmok. But the style here is quite different from Eternity. While that film was based on an acclaimed novel Tewakul here casts his gaze on one of cinema's all time greats, adapting the story of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon and infusing it with a sensibility that reminds me very much of Ronny Yu's The Bride With White Hair.
A murder mystery told from multiple viewpoints with a strong supernatural element the production values here are absolutely fabulous, certainly the strongest I've seen from a Thai fantasy period piece since Nonzee Nimibutr's Queens Of Langkasuka - also starring Everingham - and arguably stronger than that. The trailer is absolutely fabulous, check it below.
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