![]() Main drama kicks in when Jan Dara reaches 15 (played by Suwinit Panjamawat) and is intro’ed to sex first by Kaew’s nanny and then by vampish sophisticate Boonlueang (Chung), one of Dad’s former squeezes. Waat gives birth to a girl, Kaew, who grows up as Jan Dara’s “sister” and is taught by her father to hate him as well. Jan Dara, whose mother died in childbirth, is hated by his father, voracious womanizer Khun Luang (Santisuk Promsiri) his surrogate mother is Aunt Waat (Vipavee Charoenpura), who comes to Bangkok to look after Jan Dara and soon ends up in Khun Luang’s bed. Instead, the viewer is never hooked into the boy’s universe, and the yarn simply spins into increasingly ludicrous melodrama. Starting off as a coming-of-ager centered on a bullied child, story should evolve into a gripping drama of self-exploration as the main character follows inexorably in his despised father’s footsteps. Precision-tooled look recalls that of Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung but, unlike Tran, Nonzee fails to make a virtue of such finesse. This pic looks stunning: ’30s upper-class Bangkok, bathed in a yellowy period glow, with immaculate interiors, gauzy compositions and gorgeous design and costumes. 29 but performed below expectations, as it then did in more blase Hong Kong.Įspecially to Western eyes, the problems with “Jan Dara” are the same as with “Nang Nak” - but magnified. After censorship trims fractionally delayed its release in Thailand, pic preemed on Sept. With Nonzee at the helm, a well-written novel as source, and Hong Kong-based actress Christy Chung cast for wider appeal, “Jan Dara” should have been a shoo-in. ![]() clout with his second movie, big-grossing ghost story “Nang Nak” (1999). Choice of a Thai project is no coincidence: Applause partner Peter Chan, himself a noted director, grew up in Bangkok, and helmer Nonzee already established his B.O. ![]() Film is the first from - and wholly funded by - Hong Kong company Applause Pictures, set up last year specifically to produce “pan-Asian” movies. Film ini dalam kategori 2013, Drama, Thailand, BluRay, 1080, Indonesia dengan label 1930s, Brothel, Flashback., Softcore, Thailand. Mario Maurer, Chaiyapol Pupart, Sakrat Ruekthamrong, Rhatha Phongam, Bongkod Bencharongkul, Thephasadin Na Ayutthaya, Ruangsak Loychusak, Shô Nishinoĭiterbitkan pada J4:35 am Oleh mimin. Jan grows up with Aunt Wad, his stepmother, and he struggles to reconcile his guilt and longing with different women in his life, including a girl called Hyacinth, whom he adores, and later Madame Boonleung, his father’s lover who becomes a key to Jan’s sexual awakening. Set in the 1930′s the story recounts the growing pains of Jan, whose mother dies while giving birth to him and who’s intensely hated by his father. ![]() Based on a famous Thai erotic novel, the film tells the story of Jan, a boy who grows up in a house lorded over by his sadistic and debauched father, Luang Wisnan. ![]()
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