Samui Song

Thai noir about resentful wife Viyada (Chermarn Boonyasak), whose French millionaire husband's attention has become fixed on a cult leader (and sculpting clay phalluses rather than sleeping with her). What was once a happy marriage now contains all the precursors to a murder plot - clumsily put into action when Viyada has a chance encounter with a would-be hitman.

"There’s style to burn in this classy Thai riff on the eternal theme of a fed-up wife who wants her no-good husband dead. Vi is an actress who’s sick of playing soap opera bitches and wants to make an indie arthouse film. Worse still, her abusive and impotent French hubby is blindly devoted to a sleazy cult guru known as the Holy One. The answer to all Vi’s problems seems to be Guy, a scuzzy hitman who desperately needs dough to pay his ailing mother’s medical bills. Naturally everything goes haywire but not in ways we might expect. Dotted with gallows humour, sharp social satire and surreal sequences that’ll keep you guessing, Samui Song is a hard-boiled and highly polished tale of unholy alliances." (Sydney Film Festival)

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