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Update Mew's new movie.

Movie "PLOY"Trailer+MV.
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Download PloyTrailer.
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Download Ploy MV.
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Poster Ploy
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Synopsis:

A violent death of a relative brings Thai restaurant owner Wit (Pornwut Sarasin) and his wife, Dang (Lalita Panyopas), back to Bangkok from America for the first time in 7 years. As soon as they arrive in Bangkok at 5.30 am Wit and Dang check into a five-star hotel downtown. Once they are inside the room Wit discovers he is out of cigarettes and goes down to the lobby bar in search of some. After getting his pack of cigarettes from the bartender Wit decides to order a cup of coffee and smoke his cigarette there. The bar is empty except for the bartender and the girl at the table in the dark corner. The girl is Ploy (Apinya Sakuljaroensuk). This is how our little tale of love and jealousy begins – a highly detailed psychological drama with three strangers locked inside one hotel room. It starts with subtle suspicions and builds up to hilarious jealousy, as the appearance of the young woman triggers devastating consequences for the couple.

http://www.twitchfil...ves/009504.html

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Friday, May 04, 2007

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Ploy plays at Director's Fortnight [ Festivals & Awards , Pen-Ek & Nonzee ]
by WiseKwai





The lineup to the Director's Fortnight sidebar to the Cannes Film Festival has been announced and among the films it features is Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's latest work, the erotic black comedy Ploy.

ThaiCinema.org has more, as do Variety and Hollywood Reporter.

The film stars Lalita Panyopas (6ixtynin9) and Pornwut Sarasin who return as Thai-American married couple who return to Thailand to attend a funeral, and the husband invites the titular troubled young woman (Apinya Sakuljaroensuk) from the bar to their room, igniting all sorts of feelings of jealousy in his wife. Meanwhile, a bartender (Ananda Everingham?) and a hotel maid have a tryst in the next room. Ploy is expected to open in Bangkok cinemas in June. How will it be received by the Censorship Board?

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who's pressing on even as his Syndromes and a Century is held hostage by the Thailand Censorship Board, is part of the program as well, with a contribution to the omnibus film, The State of the World.

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

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Fortissimo makes play for Ploy [ Pen-Ek & Nonzee ]
by WiseKwai






Fortissimo Films is throwing its weight behind Ploy, the upcoming film by Pen-ek Ratanaruang that promises to be a return to form for the Thai director after his sojourn making weird movies with Christopher Doyle (Last Life in the Universe and Invisible Waves).

Variety and Screen Daily both have details on the deal.

For Ploy, Pen-ek is reunited with Thai cinematographer Chankit Chamnivikaipong, who was the lensman on his first three films: Fun Bar Karaoke (would someone please release this on DVD?), 6ixtynin9 and Monrak Transistor. It also reunites Ratanaruang with Thai TV soap star Lalita Panyopas, the lead actress in 6ixtynin9. Co-stars are the busy Ananda Everingham and Apinya Sakuljaroensuk.

Budgeted at around US$2 million (about 80 million baht), the story written by Pen-ek is set in a hotel room, where a husband and wife (Lalita) encounter another woman (Apinya). Here is an earlier synopsis for the Pusan Promotion Plan. Somewhere else I read that Ananda was pegged as a sleazy pornographer, so I'm not sure who plays Lalita's husband.

"Pen-ek this time has embarked on a project which is intimate yet provocative. His signature style is still very evident in Ploy, and we also warmly welcome the return to film of the sensational Lalita Panyopas, the leading lady of 6ixtynin9," Fortissimo Films' Wouter Barendrecht was quoted as saying by Screen Daily.

Fortissimo will handle world sales outside Thailand while Thai studio Five Star Production will distribute the film locally. Five Star plans the release for this year, but with the Thai film calendar already pretty crowded, I'm not sure exactly how they are going to fit it in.


Friday, January 05, 2007

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Blockbuster 2007 for Thai films [ Chatrichalerm Yukol , Pen-Ek & Nonzee , Ong Bak Jok Mok ]
by WiseKwai

There's also a Pen-ek Ratanaruang movie planned called Ploy. It sounds like Pen-ek getting back to his pre-Christopher Doyle roots, with a low-budget black comedy about a Thai-American couple who gets mixed up with a pornographer. Lalita Panyopas, who I loved in 6ixtynin9, stars as the wife, and Ananda Everingham is the porno dude.



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love what he said "Lalita Panyopas, who I loved in 6ixtynin9, stars as the wife,'[/b]

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[Karen]

dag someone beat her up really good! she got bruises and she's bleeding. looks interesting

[noiki]

i guess it's me but i didn't like 6ixtynin9. i'm not a big fan of black comedies so i don't think i'll be catching this one. thanks for sharing the info kluay

[kluay]

This movie it not the black comedies na kinda erotic, jealousy, serious drama very interesting I can’t wait to see it and it got pretty good review so far and its showing in Cannes right now, I’m about to update Mew pics there too.

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Mew in Cannes.



http://www.thaicinem...nes2007ploy.asp

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Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's Ploy poster, pics and trailer!

Todd did a masterful job covering the introduction to the next film, Ploy, from Pen-Ek Ratanaruang that I will refer you to his article. I agree with him that Invisible Waves smacked of dissapointment but Ratanaruang has proven himself capable enough to make a good film so we look forward to Ploy. We have the poster and four stills from the film for you today [one of the stills is a repeat but the imagry is so beautiful it bears repeating].
http://www.twitchfil...ves/010045.html

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Thai takes
Story by Kong Rithdee


Apinya Sakulcharoensuk plays the title character in "Ploy", one of the three Thai films that will have their premiere in Cannes.

Last May, the Thai government hosted one of the most luxurious parties in Cannes at the Carlton, a majestic beachfront hotel where top stars mingle. The bash was thrown by the Tourism Authority of Thailand to confirm the next edition of the Bangkok International Film Festival, which was later subjected to much confusion and eventually postponed from January to July of this year.

We conjured up the posh Thai party last year though the majority of the party's organisers had no idea that one Thai short, a thesis film by Anocha Suwichakornpong, was invited to screen in Cannes' selection (Anocha had no idea there was a Thai party either). This year, three Thai filmmakers will strut down the palm-lined boulevard of Cannes to present their movies, and it's a pity that no receptions will be thrown in their honour by any Thai authority. The 60th Cannes Film Festival kicked off on May 16 and will end on May 27.

Ekachai Uekrongtham's Pleasure Factory will be shown in the Un Certain Regard section (see main story), while Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Ploy and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's short film Luminous People will be screened in the Directors' Fortnight programme. Ploy will open in Thai theatres on June 7, whereas Apichatpong's 15-minute movie, which documents an ash-scattering ceremony on the Mekong River, is likely to be screened at small, unofficial gatherings in Bangkok later this year.

Standard practice for most countries - from Brazil to Japan and Indonesia - is for the state to recognise the achievement of its filmmakers being selected for Cannes by sponsoring a reception or a party. That never happened with Thailand, even in 2004 when, for the first time in history, a Thai movie was invited into the top-tier Competition section.

Five Star Production, the Thai studio that produces Ploy, a marital drama which takes place almost entirely in a hotel room, says it will throw its own party on the beach to celebrate the film's presence. Parties, usually beginning late at night, are a de facto promotion activity for films that are picked by Cannes, and usually draw huge crowds of insomniacs and freeloaders.

http://www.bangkokpo...2007_real22.php

This post has been edited by kluay: 23 May 2007 - 10:32 AM

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Ploy
Lee Marshall in Cannes
22 May 2007 15:25


Dir/scr: Pen-ek Ratanaruang. Thai. 2007. 105 mins.

Thai auteur Pen-ek Ratanaruang's most mature, measured film to date, Ploy offers a darkly poetic variation on the theme of The Seven Year Itch. Though its slow pacing demands a certain patience, the slow waltz of story, editing and camerawork goes beyond the surreal, open-ended ditherings of the director's last film, Invisible Waves, to deliver a solid dramatic punch and an unforced moral message.

This is such a tasty slice of cinema, by turns onieric, erotic, funny and emotionally perceptive, that it could easily have made the Cannes competition rather than the Quinzaine sidebar. Ploy imposes its own unhurried rhythm but then rewards its viewers for their indulgence, and within the arthouse niche that it will inevitably inhabit this could turn out to be a strong seller for Fortissimo, possibly outdoing Last Life In The Universe: it's difficult to see distributors in territories with resilient cineaste audiences passing this one up. Critical buzz and further festival dates should help to get the word out.

Right from the beginning it becomes clear that we are in a transit zone, both geographical and emotional. We see a couple arrive at Bangkok airport, take a cab and check in at an anonymous contemporary hotel in the small hours of the morning. The husband, Wit (Pornwut Sarasin), goes down to the bar for a packet of cigarettes and starts chatting to Ploy (Apinya Sakuljaroensuk), a vivacious, Lolita-like girl who claims to be waiting for her mother, and looks younger than the almost-19 she declares.

As there are still several hours to go until Ploy's mother arrives, Wit invites her to get some rest in his suite, where he has left his wife Dang (well-known Thai film and TV actress Lalita Panyopas) asleep. But she's not asleep now, and is understandably annoyed with, and suspicious of, her husband. Just like her, we're never quite sure whether Wit's invitation was purely altruistic, just as we're not sure whether Ploy's acceptance was as innocent as it seems – or rather, didn't seem.

Ratanaruang plays with this uncertainty in a masterly way throughout the film – in fact, Ploy (the film) is a fine example of his skill as a scriptwriter as well as his assured way with actors, staging and framing.

Meanwhile, in an apparently unrelated story, Nut (Ananda Everingham), the barman we saw downstairs, meets Tum (Phorntip Pananai), a chambermaid, for a gently erotic illicit encounter in a hotel room.

Australian-Laotian Everingham is a hot star in Thailand – though its difficult to know whether his fans at home will be amused or annoyed by the fact that, as the director declares in the press book, "he spends most of his screentime inside a girl's skirt". Gradually the connection between the two plotlines is revealed, or half-revealed. Because although the dreams Wit, Ploy and Dang have during their fitful slumbers invade the story (and this may or may not be one of them), they do so with an inventive edginess that keeps us guessing.

Charnkit Chamniwikaipong proves a worthy successor to Chris Doyle, who worked as cinematographer on Ratanaruang's last two films: Ploy is beautifully framed and shot, most of the time in a painterly half-light that stresses the transitional zone that Wit and Dang's relationship has reached: it's a kind of emotional twilight.


Music consists mostly of subdued electronic suspense chords and fugue-like organ notes, with more dramatic free-jazz impro raising the temperature near the end. Even a torch song delivered straight to camera by Tum, the chambermaid, does not break the mood: like everything else in this impressive film, it is perfectly judged.

Credit to Screendaily.

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cool, has anyone seen it and can give either good or bad recommendation?