Redlife (HKIFF48)
Genre
SPECIAL PROGRAMME
Release Date
29 Mar 2024 (Fri)
Category
--- (HK), ---(Macau)
Running Time
121 Minutes
Language
Thai
Subtitle
Chinese and English
Director
Ekalak Klunson
Cast
Thiti Mahayotaruk, Supitcha Sangkhachinda, Sumitta Duangkaew
Synopsis
Long-time commercial director Ekalak Klunson impresses with a feature debut that disrupts Thailand’s commercial industry with a rare mainstream work about serious social issues. A frank, uncompromising and visually striking portrait of poverty, sex work, and crime, the drama follows two characters living hard knock lives in the big city: Ter, a petty criminal who has to rely on his sex worker girlfriend to stay afloat; and Som, a prep school student desperate to hide the fact that her mother is a prostitute
Long-time commercial director Ekalak Klunson impresses with a feature debut that disrupts Thailand’s commercial industry with a rare mainstream work about serious social issues. A frank, uncompromising and visually striking portrait of poverty, sex work, and crime, the drama follows two characters living hard knock lives in the big city: Ter, a petty criminal who has to rely on his sex worker girlfriend to stay afloat; and Som, a prep school student desperate to hide the fact that her mother is a prostitute
