Movie lovers are invited to watch a selection of eight classic movies from Thailand and France that are being screened online as part of the "French-Thai Cinema Exchange", via cinematheque.fr/henri, free of charge.
A collaboration between the Thai Film Archive and France's Cinematheque Francaise, the cinema exchange programme features online screenings of four Thai national heritage films as selected by the archive for an English-speaking audience.
They include Santi-Vina (1954), the first Thai film that won awards from international festivals; Prai Takian (1940), a silent film about a vengeful spirit, which is the oldest horror film in the archive's collection; Katoey Pen Het (It's All Because Of A Katoey, 1954); and Dark Heaven (1958), a musical-comedy-romance-drama film directed by Rattana Pestonji.
The other four rare French movies as selected for Thai audiences by Cinematheque Francaise include La Chute De La Maison Usher (The Fall Of The House Of Usher, 1928), a horror directed by Jean Epstein; Le Tempestaire (1947), a short drama film about a storm tamer also directed by Jean Epstein; L'Hirondelle Et La Mésange (The Swallow And The Titmouse, 1924), a drama directed by André Antoine; and Blue Jeans (1958), a short film directed by Jacques Rozier that follows two teenage boys trying to pick up girls in the resort town of Riviera.
A scene from L'Hirongelle Et La Mésange (1924). Film Archive (Public Organization)
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