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LGBTQ Thai Ghost Story Wins Prize in Cannes
- Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s film 'A Useful Ghost' received the highest honor in the Critics' Week section at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday.
- He created the offbeat gay comedy to explore political themes rarely addressed in Thailand's popular LGBTQ cinema.
- 'A Useful Ghost' features Davika Hoorne as a woman who becomes a ghost inhabiting a vacuum cleaner, seeking to protect her husband amid spirits of those who died in the 2010 protests.
- The 2010 'Red Shirt' protests followed a coup ousting Thaksin Shinawatra, causing over 90 deaths mostly among civilians, and the city later cleansed protest debris, which inspired the film's themes.
- The film's success highlights the bravery required to address suppressed histories and calls for more politically diverse queer stories in Thailand's evolving cultural landscape.
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Critics’ Week-Winning ‘A Useful Ghost’ Director Talks Casting Davika Hoorne As A Vacuum Cleaner: “She’s So Famous & The Script Is So Weird: I Assumed She Wouldn’t Be Interested” – Cannes Studio
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke has just made history as the first Thai director to win the top prize at Cannes parallel section Critics’ Week with his debut feature A Useful Ghost, winning the inaugural AMI Paris Grand Prize. Thai actress, model and influencer Davika Hoorne stars as a woman who dies of dust pollution and then returns as […]
A Useful Ghost — Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke [Cannes '25 Review]
One day, noticing an influx of dust into their apartment due to some construction outside, a person known only as an “academic ladyboy” (as they call themselves and are credited on IMDb) buys a new vacuum cleaner. It seems to work well, but that night the vacuum coughs out all of its dust. A call [...] The post A Useful Ghost — Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke [Cannes ’25 Review] appeared first on In Review Online.
Grief, Ghosts and Good Food in Genre-Busting Debut, “Aftertaste”
What would you do if you could have one last meal with a loved one who passed away? This is the situation Konstantin Duhovny, also known as Kostya, finds himself in in Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle, a genre-bending novel that’s not your typical ghost story. The story unfolds as Kostya,... The post Grief, Ghosts and Good Food in Genre-Busting Debut, “Aftertaste” first appeared on BookTrib..
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