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Fun Bar Karaoke
New Currents
Urbanization · Social Criticism · Irony
- CountryThailand
- Production Year1997
- Running Time100min
- Format35mm
- ColorCOLOR
Program Note
The two faces of Bangkok. Modernized by appearances, its citizens think in ancient ways. Pu works at 24-hour convenience store, and is plagued by a recurring dream of her dead mother building a house. Pu seeks a fortune teller who says her father will die upon completion of the house if the dreams continue. Her playboy father falls in love with Yok at the karaoke bar that he frequents. He gets beaten up by orders form Chinese mafioso Toeng after not heeding warnings to stay away from Yok. Then there′s the hitman Noi, who Pu starts to hang out with. Director Pen-ek Ratanaruang arranges the meeting of Pu and Noi, and the relations of her father, Yok, and Toeng around Pu′s dream, with her father at the center. The two images of Bangkok lie in the contrasting images of the enchantress Yok, and Pu′s mother, signifying a warning to the dissipated father. The tough hitman Noi is too shy to express love. Pu looks like the most resonable person around, but clings to a fortune teller. Fun Bar Karaoke is a satirical look at the complicated and ambiguous Bangkok, where past and present, tradition and modernism, and logic and rationalism coexist. (Kim Ji-Seok)
Director

Pen-ek RATANARUANG
Pen-ek Ratanaruang is from Bangkok, Thailand. He studied in New York at the Pratt Institute. He is one of the handful of directors who have helped to reinvent the Thai film industry since its slump in the 1990s, and has pioneered both the trend of looking back at retro Thai pop culture for inspiration and the expansion of Thai cinema. His latest film, [Nymph], had its world premiere in Cannes 2009.
Credit
- Director
Pen-ek RATANARUANG - ProducerDhiranan Sukwibul
- CastFay Assawase
Ray Macdonald
Rae Chow - ScreenplayPan-ek Ratanaruang
- CinematographyCharnkit Chamnivikaipong
- Production DesignPan-ek Ratanaruang
- EditorPattamanadda Yukol
Adrian Brady - SoundAmornpong Methakunawut
- MusicPaisam Chamnong
Bakery Music - World SalesThe Film Factory
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