“I treasure some kinds of old Thai disaster movies. Many of such tell a forbidden love story between a man and a woman that the mother earth destroyed them. Similarly, Blissfully Yours contains innocent narrative and simple characters. The settings are open landscapes and the disaster plot is there, except that it is transformed into another kind of disaster.” สุดเสน่หา [Sud sanaeha / Blissfully Yours] (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002)
Jul
17
A hand picking skin in the water (via). DP: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom.
Someone with sunburn, or a skin condition*
– Apichatpong Weerasethakul, via
Min and Roong cherish their love among the uncertainty of his residence status. A old woman guards them, and soothes Min's blistered skin.
* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for July is, for unknown reasons, mostly not date-related and follows some sort of vacation narrative.