From here to eternity
ML Pandevanop Devakul's first film in 14 years is an adaptation of a 1943 book about taboo love and unbreakable chains
The novel is slim, at only 60 pages. Its prose is poised yet supple, and its swirl of drama begins in a taboo love before hurtling its characters down, quite intensely, brilliantly, even after 67 years, to the dark recesses of the human heart.
A nephew has an affair with the young wife of his uncle, a Burmese timber tycoon, who catches them in a heated smother and proceeds to chain the two adulterers together. You are in love, the uncle says, so you should remain attached and shackled to each other in this remote logging camp, as lovers should, every second, every breath, in sickness or in health, in joy or tragedy, for all eternity. The idea of ''tying the knot'', in short, is taken to the extreme.
''It's a very intelligent book,'' says ML Pandevanop Devakul. ''It goes beyond reality, yet its feet are firmly grounded in the reality of human feelings.''
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