Morte Cucina
Sao (Bella Boonsang, excellent) grew up as a Muslim in the south of Thailand. Forced into exile after a traumatic incident, she now works as a waitress at a Bangkok restaurant. Sao is also a talented chef of Thai cuisine. When she one day encounters a customer at the restaurant that she remembers from her past, a man who upended her life, Sao decides to exact revenge – in a most unexpected manner. Beautifully shot by Christopher Doyle (In the Mood for Love), with lovingly rendered depictions of the cooking process and the food, the enigmatically constructed Morte Cucina is a blackly funny revenge thriller. Or as director Ratanaruang describes it: "It is a sous-vide of a revenge deliciously served. Thai style."
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Pen-ek Ratanaruang made his debut as a feature film director in 1997 with a movie that broke the mould of Thai cinema called FUN BAR KARAOKE. Since then, he has been recognized as a major pioneer in the Thai New Wave cinema of the late 1990s / early 2000s. Four of his films – 6IXTYNIN9, MONRAK TRANSISTOR, LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE, and HEADSHOT – were Thailand’s official submissions to the Foreign Language Film Oscar category. His films have been screened in major festivals and have been distributed worldwide.
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