France, May 25 -- Thanks to its lively and quirky social commentary, A Useful Ghostby Thai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke won the Critics' Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival this week. It was the first time in ten years that Thailand has been represented at the event.
For his first feature-length film, Ratchapoom Bookbunchachoke relies on ghosts who contact humans to comment on several societal and environmental issues- such as deadly air pollution in Bangkok.
The film is full of dark, mischievous humour and operates on several levels, surprising the audience with its unusual twists and turns.
On the surface, it's a story about a young man, March, who is struggling with grief after the death of his wife, who died due to an...