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One Night Husband

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  • CountryThailand
  • Production Year2003
  • Running Time114m
  • Format35mm
  • ColorCOLOR
Program Note
One Night Husband is a story of a Thai woman whose husband disappears on their weddingnight. Sipang searches for her missing husband with the help of Chatchai, the older brother of her husband, and his wife, Busaba, One day, Sipang witnesses Busaba being abused by her husband and comes to take care of her. The two women gradually grow close to each other. The sudden disappearance of the husband in this film forces us to look into the Asian subject of suffering brought on by the disruption caused by the confusion of values. Sipang′s depair at the loss of her husband and her subsequent psychological stresses-she is not a wife, she is not divorced-clings to her like a fever. And, this fever is the deep-rooted disease of contemporary Asians who are drifting between traditional values and lethargic modern values. This film symbolizes this disease through empty space, humid air, steaming heat and poor indoor lighting. The gaze of camera that captures a tactile and olfactory intimacy, obsessively absorbs masculine hysteria and closely observes the emotion shared between Sipang and Busaba. From time to time, the two women communicate in sentiment and memory, regardless of whether they are in fantasy or reality, or in darkness or light. Such gazes don′t stop at only depicting the neurosis of modernization, but goes further to target the love and life that the two women feel. (Kim Ji-hoon)
Director
Director
Pimpaka TOWIRA
A pioneer of Thai independent film since the early ’90s, Towira studied film in the late 80s at Thammasat University while part of an experimental theatre group. Since 1988 she has made a number of short films, mostly concerned with women’s issues. These include “Mae Nak”(1997), a deconstruction of the popular Thai ghost story “Mae Nak Phra Kanong”. In addition to film making, she has worked as a journalist, a film critic, a lecturer and was also the program director for the 4th Bangkok Film Festival in 2001.
Credit
  • Director
    Pimpaka TOWIRA
  • ProducerPaiboon Damrongchaitham
    Busaba Daorueng
    Mingmongkoi Sonakul
  • CastNicole Theriault
    Siriyakorn Pukkavesa
    Pongpat Wachirabanjong
  • ScreenplayPimpaka Towira
  • CinematographyC=Christoph Janetzko
  • Production DesignAnan Nuchawong
  • EditorLee Chatametikool
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