Bangkok’s Alliance Française will screen the Thai New Wave classic
Tears of the Black Tiger (ฟ้าทะลายโจร) on 9th September. The film was Wisit Sasanatieng’s directorial debut, and it became a cult classic due to its uniquely over-saturated colour palette, its ‘
spaghetti western’ violence, and its
lakorn-style melodrama.
Tears of the Black Tiger has previously been shown at
Bangkok Screening Room in 2017,
TCDC in 2016,
BACC in 2012, and the Thai Film Archive in
2009 and
2010.
Wisit’s other feature films are
Citizen Dog (หมานคร),
The Unseeable (เปนชู้กับผี),
The Red Eagle (อินทรีแดง), and
Senior (รุ่นพี่). He directed the music video
เราเป็นคนไทย, the short film
Norasinghavatar (นรสิงหาวตาร), and segments of the anthology films
Sawasdee Bangkok (สวัสดีบางกอก) and
Ten Years Thailand. He also wrote the treatment for
Slice (เฉือน), and the screenplays for
Nang Nak (นางนาก) and
Dang Bireley’s and Young Gangsters [
sic] (
2499 อันธพาลครองเมือง).
