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Program 1
ArcLight Hollywood • 5:00 p.m.
 
BANG RAJAN: Legend of the Village Warriors
(Thailand, 2000) Dir.: Thanit Jitnukul; Scr: Kongat Komsiri, Boontin Tuaykaew, Patikarn Petchmunee, Thanit Jitnukul
Thanit Jitnukul (director of VC FILMFEST 1999 selection CRIME KINGS) offers his take on the legend of Bang Rajan, the village that succeeded in blocking the advance of the Burmese army eight times as it invaded Siam in 1765-66. While the script’s characters and incidents are largely invented for the purposes of the story, BANG RAJAN recreates the period as faithfully as possible. A box office champ upon its Bangkok release in 1999 (it overtook Nonzee Nimibutr’s NANG NAK, a VC FILMFEST 2000 selection), the film is convincingly imagined by the director as a fitting metaphor for an account of Thailand’s resilience in times of hardship.
35mm, 119 min., color, Narrative, in Thai w/Eng. subtitles
 
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