Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #58. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Love in Khon Kaen

Love in Khon Kaen

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul // Writer: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Though he premiered a medium length film at Cannes 2012, Mekong Hotel, Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul hasn’t debuted a feature length since his 2010 Palme d’Or winning Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. His latest, Love in the Khon Kaen (formerly known as a project called Cemetery of Kings) promises to be another mystical enigma from the provocative director, described as a film about a lonesome middle-age housewife who tends a soldier with sleeping sickness and falls into a hallucination that triggers strange dreams, phantoms, and romance. Weersethakul collaborates once more with familiar castmembers, including Jenjira Pongpas (Boonmee; Syndromes and a Century) and Banlop Lomnoi (Tropical Malady).

Cast: Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop Lomnoi

Producers: Kick the Machine Films’ Simon Field (Mekong Hotel),  Illumination Films’ Keith Griffiths (Berberian Sound Studio)

U.S. Distributor: Rights available

Release Date: Apparently in post-production, Weerasethakul tends to favor Cannes, with some of his most beloved titles landing their first. Since his Palme d’Or win, we’re expecting he would be a high profile contender for Cannes 2015.

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