Blissfully Yours
Roong longs for the day when she can be in the arms of her Burmese lover, Min, an illegal immigrant. One afternoon Roong and Min have a picnic in the jungle where they feel free to express their love. Orn, a friend of Roong’s, is also in the jungle with her lover, with whom she has found all the pleasure she has dreamed of. They are interrupted by a Burmese immigrant who steals their motorcycle. Her lover chases after the thief and disappears. Orn wanders around, lost, until she reaches the stream where she meets Roong and Mon. Above the forest, the sky is about to rain.
Innovative and enigmatic, BLISSFULLY YOURS is a languid celebration of the pleasures of the moment. In Apichatpong’s heady, sensual and playful film, a leisurely road trip and a picnic in the jungle give way to uninhibited emotion and eroticism.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s delicate, ethereal dream of a film marks the emergence of one of the more original and promising new voices to hit the international cinema scene in recent years.
-Manohla Dargis, The New York Times (2004)
Weerasethakul films the lost couple with such aching tenderness that the effect is not titillating, but profoundly moving.
– Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide
Atmosphere reigns supreme, and it’s brilliantly evoked.
– David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor
Poetic and rhythmically confident, Blissfully Yours is a subtle seduction.
– John Anderson, Newsday
DIRECTOR:
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
WRITER:
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
CAST:
Kanokporn Tongaram
Min Oo
Jenjira Pongpas
Country of Origin: Thailand
Format: DCP/1.66:1/Color
Running Time: 125 minutes
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Rated
In Thai and Burmese with English Subtitles
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