Tears Of The Black Tiger

Starring: Chartchai Ngamsan, Suwinit Panjamawat Director: Wisit Sasanatieng Original UK Premiere: 2001 Dvd Release: 4th March, 2002 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

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This film has it all. A plot from a spaghetti western, startlingly innovative cinematography, colouration from seven wives for seven brothers & violence that makes pulp fiction look tame. But youll walk away with your eyes dazzled by the colour!

But the film is much more that. There are some proper grown up themes dealt with here, especially that old favourite unrequited love.

This was my favourite film of 2001 & still stays with me now. The way the director uses every trick he can, not to fill the film with smart alec gimmicks, but to elavate the plot & to bypass your cerebal cortex & plunge straight into your heart. The word love is overused but I love this film & this film is about love

Wisit Sasanatieng is a Thai film director & screenwriter. Best known for his colourful debut feature film, Tears of the Black Tiger, he is among a New Wave of Thai directors that include Nonzee Nimibutr, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang & Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Wisit studied at the Faculty of Decorative Arts at Silpakorn University, where he was a classmate of Nonzee Nimibutr & set designer Ek Lemchuen. He was an art director at an advertising agency, making television commercials. He entered the film industry as a screenwriter for two of Nonzees films, 1997s Dang Bireley’s & the Young Gangsters, set in 1950s Thailand & the ghost thriller, Nang Nak in 1999. Critically & at the box office, the films were successes & marked the beginning of a new wave movement in the Thai film industry. Wisits feature-film debut was in 2000 with the colourfully audacious Tears of the Black Tiger, a genre-blending western. With a romantic melodrama at its core, the story involves outlaws, gunfights, horseback riding, comedic bits & big explosions.

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