New Invisible Waves Trailer Online!

Posted by Todd Brown at 4:08am.

Posted in Trailer Alerts , Drama, Asia.

Not even a week ago we posted a link to the first trailer for Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s Invisible Waves, the latest film from the Thai auteur in which he reunites with the writer, star and cinematographer of his stellar Last Life In The Universe, and there is already a second full trailer available.

Why two trailers so quickly? Well, the first was prepared for sales agent Fortissimo Films to use while the film was at the Berlin Film Festival and could never be used anywhere within Thailand where there are strict rules against nudity on screen. I’m told, incidentally, that that shot in particular didn’t survive the final cut, making the nudity a non-issue in the film’s native land. This new trailer, on the other hand, looks to be the official Thai theatrical trailer and while it contains some of the same footage is mostly new stuff and is just as stunning as the first. Very nice. [source]

Fortissimo Trailer (downloadable WMV)
Thai Theatrical Trailer (downloadable WMV)

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Joshua Pettigrew 02/15/2006 @ 5:40am

I like this trailer a bit more than the first one.
Noah 02/15/2006 @ 9:26am

Strange. I found the first trailer much more engaging. The first allowed me more room to investigate the imagery. My favorite part of a Pen-Ek film. The music is very forced to me in the second, though it could just be the poor wmp quality that lowered my response.
iamNataku 02/15/2006 @ 2:52pm

Very, very bad trailer. Left a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe I’m just bitter because they took out the nudity and the nice music. (The only reason I watch movies!)
iamNataku 02/15/2006 @ 3:00pm

From GreenCine Daily

Meanwhile. I suspect Invisible Waves isn’t quite the film Pen-ek Ratanaruang, cinematographer Christopher Doyle and screenwriter Prabda Yoon set out to make and doesn’t measure up to their previous work together nor, hopefully, to the three future sequels they mentioned playfully today (we’ll see whether or not they actually pan out). At any rate, if I’m capable of reading atmo at all, going by the mood on the panel of these esteemed filmmakers and the press at the conference, I’m not alone.

Briefly, Asano Tadanobu plays Kyoji, a chef’s assistant in Macau who’s fallen into an affair with his boss’s wife. The boss has struck a deal with him: kill her and I’ll set up a new life for you in Phuket. He does the deed, sets out on a cruise ship and, wracked by guilt, begins to realize that his string of bad luck is no coincidence. He decides to take matters into his own hands.

Pen-ek Ratanaruang professes to love film noir “and anything with Robert Mitchum,” which he’ll watch again and again. The idea here is to do something along this line, only, as he told die taz, whenever he sees a Hollywood film, he always wonders what the scenes that are cut out look like. That’s one way of approaching Invisible Waves; another is to see it as an anti-thriller that isn’t nearly as pretty to look at as Doyle’s other work and that has its moments. For me, those moments are a little too few and far between.
iamNataku 02/15/2006 @ 3:42pm

Variety review can be found here:

http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=features2006&content;=jump&jump;=review&head;=berlin&nav;=RBerlin&articleid;=VE1117929621
soulmining 02/20/2006 @ 11:57pm

I caught the premiere here in Bangkok at the BKKIFF and I think ‘anti-thriller’ is a good word to describe it. You never see any of the action, the film is far more concerned with the reactions and repercussions of those actions to the characters involved. Reaction has been mixed here but I liked the film and Tadanobu Asano’s performance is excellent. Check out my site for lots of photos from the premiere.
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