P-047
(Tae Piang Phu Deaw)

Lek and Kong are respectively a would-be locksmith and a would-be writer, spending their time in an unusual way: they break into homes not to rob people, but to live their lives, while they’re visiting. They want to be other people, put their clothes on, eat in their pans, before carefully putting things away. Yet having a taste of other people’s lives is not without social and psychological risks. Kongdej Jaturanrasmee’s first feature Midnight My Love was developed during a Produire au Sud session at the 2003 F3C. His new film is as risky as the lives of its two characters. As the story unfolds, narrative layers get blurred, dream and reality become one, identity and otherness are uneasily defined. The comical portrait of two young urban losers turns into a questioning about owning and borrowing. Indeed, the film-maker also borrows from other, famous Thai films. One may pick up a reference to Apichatpong Weerasethakul in a sensual scene shot in the jungle… Charlotte Garson