Soi Cowboy

Section: World Cinema
Directed by: Thomas Clay


Thailand, UK, 2008

Dir.: Thomas Clay
Scr.: Thomas Clay
Phot.: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
Ed.: Thomas Clay
Music: Art Supawatt
Cast: Nicolas Bro, Pimwalee Thampanyasan, Petch Mekoh, Natee Srimanta, Somluk Kuamsing
Format: 35 mm
Color, black & white
117 mins
Language: English, Lao, Thai voice, French subtitle, Hungarian voice over

Bangkok. Tobias, a corpulent European man, and Koi, a young, pregnant Thai woman, live together in near silence. His large body stands out in marked contrast to her tiny frame. He gives her presents - she has a growing collection of stuffed animals - and takes viagra pills. She is looking for security, and he is the best way to stay out of Soi Cowboy, the red-light district where they met. She likes him but sleeping with him is seen as a duty. Meanwhile, in the countryside, her younger brother, a teenage mafia enforcer, is employed to deliver Koi's older brother's head.

„In exposing the details of this relationship, the struggles and the compromises and the day to day trivialities, I wanted to find a way through to subjects such as the relative nature of sexual morality, the global impact of free market capitalism and the ongoing human struggle against impermanence.” (Thomas Clay)

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	Pachamama		The Shaft