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Worldly Desires
THAILAND · 2005

Worldly Desires

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
spiritual journey escape from family love and romance nature and jungle experimental cinema
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Synopsis

One of three films commissioned by the Jeonju International Film Festival in 2005. A couple escaped their family to look for a spiritual tree in the jungle. There is a song at night, a song that spoke about an innocent idea of love and a quest for happiness. Worldly Desires is an experimental project where I invited a filmmaker friend, Pimpaka Towira, to shoot the love story by day and the song

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