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Underwater folly
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 12/06/2019
» In the aquatic chamber, the tank looms. Encrusted and barnacled, the mighty war machine has become a home of fish and corals. It seems incapacitated, abandoned, useless. Such is an illusion: if the tank is submerged, we're down there with it, drowned in that inexorable aquarium. Look, its gun still points at us, and its shadow all-consuming.
We'll always have Casablanca
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/01/2017
» In Casablanca -- yes, Casablanca -- they fall in love amidst the escalation of war. It wasn't supposed to be real: Brad Pitt is Commander Max Vatan, a Canadian intelligence officer parachuting into French Morocco at the height of World War II to meet his contact, a French resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour, played by Marion Cotillard. They only need to pretend to be lovers in order to fool the Germans in the lead up to the assassination of a German ambassador. But like in Casablanca, which is a thousand times more romantic and sad by the way, Max and Marianne can't resist the dangerous lure of romance as the spectre of death and war smother them.
Interpreting the legend
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 21/11/2014
» O INHABIT A TORTURED SOUL, Gaspard Ulleil lost weight and arrived on the first day of shooting for Saint Laurent "in a body that wasn't mine". The classy, strong-jawed French actor, 30, adds: "It's important, because it helped me to transcend something and meet the character."
Final festival films before curtain call
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/08/2014
» After Yves, you'll still have time to catch the front row with Yohji and the ethereal minimalism of his clothes. The second "Elle Fashion Film Festival" is entering its final two days, and while several screenings in the past week have been popular at SF Emporium — particularly Yves Saint Laurent and The Grand Budapest Hotel — there's one film that I personally enjoy and yet it's flying below the radar of Bangkok chic (meaning sparse audiences).