the blue hour ( 2015 film )
the blue hour plays may 31, 2015, at the inside out film festival in toronto .
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i don' t know whether i hated it or loved it; whether it meant nothing or everything; whether it was truthy or bullshit. this is truly the what the fuck? ! film of siff 2015 .
firstly to explain the name of the title
the blue hour
also known as
onthakan
means time between both morning and night, the realm between dreams and reality, or good and evil .
coincidentally, anucha boonyawatana ’s “the blue hour” opens a run at the museum of modern art in a week when two other films playing in new york remind us of the different connotations its color - coded titular adjective has had. andy warhol ’s “blue movie” (1968), being shown at the whitney museum, recalls a time when “blue” meant erotic, naughty, titillating. meanwhile, “ born to be blue, ” the new, ethan hawke film about tragic jazz great chet baker, gives us the same hue as a synonym for beat, down, melancholic .
noe had to spend 20 - hour days poring over his naked images in order to have the film ready. ultimately his 3d ejaculation scene became the most talked about scene at the festival .
the blue hour is a sexy supernatural love story about a bullied loner, tam, who finds solace in the arms of phum, a boy he meets at a haunted swimming pool. phum reveals that his family' s land has been stolen and the new found lovers imagine a perfect life together on the disputed land. haunted by a ghostly presence, tam struggles to stay connected to reality. an official selection of the berlin international film festival, the blue hour is a dark atmospheric tale of love and distress .
available on dvd and digital platforms 3 / 8 / 16. the blue hour is a sexy supernatural love story about a bullied loner, tam, who finds solace in the arms of phum, a boy he meets at a haunted swimming pool. phum reveals that his family’s land has been stolen and the new found lovers imagine a perfect life together on the disputed land. haunted by a ghostly presence, tam struggles to stay connected to reality. an official selection of the berlin international film festival, the blue hour is a dark atmospheric tale of love and distress .
other, more malevolent forces soon intrude on the initial idyll, and that’s much to the film’s credit. while “the blue hour” opens in a way suggesting a typical gay coming - of - age tale, it quickly veers away from conventional formulas and expectations by using that genre to springboard into different and much darker ones .
for the first hour, you’d be forgiven for forgetting the blue hour was part of the “dark side of queer film” series. there’s nothing lighthearted about a victim of abuse, but at first the gorgeous cinematography depicts a burgeoning, wandering idyllic relationship in a practically post - apocalyptic urban landscape before slowly dipping into the horror elements. there’s little distinction between fantasy and reality as the film goes along. tam has clearly been traumatized by his life as a longtime victim, and there are hints that part of this psychosis may stem from an unidentified illness .
cannes topper thierry frémaux had naturally been keen to program the film after the festival’s 2013 explicit lesbian drama, blue is the warmest colour, had been a last - minute sensation, coming out of nowhere to win the coveted palme d’or .
“we don’t want to promote what is what. i remember it being a talking point with blue is the warmest colour. ”
the blue hour is a sexy supernatural love story about a bullied loner, tam, who finds solace in the arms of phum, a boy he meets at a haunted swimming pool. phum reveals that his family' s... see full summary »
i suppose the important question is, is the blue hour good? the pace is slow and the horrors are introduced just as slowly, but any faster and they would probably seem ridiculous. the film kept me watching, wanting to know what the resolution would be, but i imagine the slow pace will frustrate audiences, and they will probably feel disappointed if they watch for a resolution. the blue hour is in turns gorgeous, creepy, and frustrating—more of a strange experience than a movie you’d walk out of and say, “i really enjoyed that! ” the film is a lot of things, and it comes together well, although i have a feeling it won’t be to everyone’s taste. a lot of murder, not a lot of boys kissing .
idk if most of the people who watch this film for the first time felt the same way i had which is confusion .
not all the narrative threads quite come together in the blue hour, and it’s a huge testament to the film that it doesn’t really matter. the movie is sensual, mysterious and tense. the mood draws you in deeply, and it just makes you crave for more. this is one of the few films this year i’m already eager to rewatch — it’s a magical world, full of hints, deceptions and paranoia .
this is one of the more unsettling aspects of the film: tam and phum inhabit an almost empty, haunted landscape, and seem mostly unfazed by the horrors around them, at least at first. early on, tam bashes in the head of a gun - wielding thug and seems frightened but not particularly bothered by the murder. this gives the blue hour the strange logic of a nightmare, where shadowy horrors make sense even though you can’t quite grasp why .
the blue hour is a hard film to sort into a genre. there’s a level of romance, but it’s certainly not a romantic movie. maybe a very slow thriller, or a mostly pleasant horror? actually, the closest thing to a genre that this feature from thailand falls into is a murakami novel: all vague symbolism, melancholic, alienated teenagers, and bizarre, unsettling magical realism .
this very welcome turn into less familiar territory means that the blue hour can abandon or at least heavily supplement its overly familiar coming - out and first - love romance angle, with several scary occurrences and twists producing both welcome and unwelcome frissons that’ll keep audiences on their toes. but boonyawatana’s command of the film' s tricky, mercurial tone isn’t strong enough to keep the film readable or even just engaging throughout and at almost 100 minutes, there’s at least a good 15 minutes that feel like filler material .
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though noé didn’t want to cast porn actors in love, which he insists is not a porn film .
it’s interesting that one of these meanings evokes the eye, cinema and pleasure, while the other relates to the ear, music and pain. but which of them fits “the blue hour”? take your pick. perhaps the most striking and noteworthy thing about this independent thai film is that it intertwines the two meanings so deftly and completely. in so doing, it reminds us that while films in the west usually present sexual pleasure as primarily a bodily function and a (temporary) flight from death, in asian cinema the same phenomenon often has a spiritual dimension that connects with, rather than flees, mortality .
on the character level, i find tam (the sensitive one) more relatable and believable than phum (who' s a victim of the film' s dreamlike state). some of the dialogue seems a bit on the nose, but it' s hard to judge these things via subtitles. also, much of the film is shot quite beautifully .
on the character level, i find tam (the sensitive one) more relatable and believable than phum (who' s a victim of the film' s dreamlike state) .
some of the dialogue seems a bit on the nose, but it' s hard to judge these things via subtitles. also, much of the film is shot quite beautifully .
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overall: t' was a great and unique movie i could say since it made me feel curious and had my urge to re - watch this film .
s / o 2 this film for showing me that true romance is taking ur bf to a haunted abandoned public pool on the first date and a garbage dump on the second one. and they say chivalry is dead !
although love, strife, and horror do eventually settle into some sort of alignment, the set of messages conveyed by their combination is hardly profound: repression generates aggression, there' s respite in tenderness, and endless stories of troubled souls can certainly invade your sleep. but while dreams obviously don' t always follow standard logic, invoking them to justify random plot shifts feels like an awfully convenient way of papering over the arbitrary. and if, as the blue hour' s sugary ending implies, it was indeed all just a dream, what' s the point in falling asleep in the first place? there are far less convoluted ways to arrive at the same obvious goal .
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the digital cinematography, with its frequently shallow depth of field, toggles smoothly between crisp and darkly suggestive images, though chapavich temnitikul ’s score is much better at ratcheting up the tension than at accompanying the melodrama. besides the camerawork, production designer phairot siriwat' s atmospheric locations are the key contribution that enhance the production values of this no - doubt very modestly budgeted independent film .
that' s more or less where i' m at. i compared the movie to mulholland dr. above, but that last half - hour is more like lost highway or inland empire, really. mulholland dr. actually resolves into a pretty straightforward narrative once you look at it, which can' t really be said for the other two movies mentioned .
when i finish watching the film, my reaction was like ;
huh, what happen? !
,
who did this and who did that? !
. i was just shocked by the ending but i really did not felt horrified nor scared .
“i was in the bathroom thinking i should run to the airport and go back to the states. ”
what could have been a clever metaphor (internalized homophobia literalized as a ghost) is wasted in a boring ugly - looking movie, filmed in the darkest way possible, making details, important details, fade into blackness. aesthetically, there' s little hang onto with this film as everything is inscrutable. the cool blues and teals are omnipresent and oppressive, choking out anything else in the film. overall, it was a chore to sit through, proving that even lgbt films can be tedious .
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not exactly the most coherent effort but i appreciate any attempt at queer storytelling within the horror genre. overall the film is very much a question mark, and i struggled to make sense of what was happening throughout, but this was a mood piece first and foremost and it certainly exceeds in crafting an unsettling atmosphere .
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ahh, the french. and yes, he says the sex club is real .
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yes to both. the stuff with the mother honestly did very little for me; same with the stuff with the brother. for me, the imagery outweighed all of that - - the junkyard, with its writhing masses of detritus and mysterious gunmen, for instance .
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so i also saw this twice, and it is weird, even after you accept the genre mashup going on. for example (mild spoilers going forward), when a ghost, evil spirit, or whatever finally seems to appear, the tension immediately dissipates and the mood shifts from terror to sadness and hopelessness. (not to say this scene isn' t scary .) what seems to be going on is that most of the events of the second half of the film represent tam' s state of mind, not events that are really happening. the continuity problems alone are enough to indicate this. but i struggle to make sense of the ending whether it' s real or not .
on a motorcycle that phum borrows, the boys leave the city and visit a garbage dump on land that phum says his family owns and that still could provide them a fortune. but now the place is a morbid nightmare realm out of charles dickens by way of david cronenberg. it seems to conjure all of the demons buried in tam’s psyche, even as it turns up guns, corpses, criminal activity linked to tam’s brother, and ghosts that connect back to certain unquiet spirits sensed at that ramshackle swimming pool, to which the film eventually returns .
noé would go on to make the less successful drug - drenched melo - drama, enter the void, all the while knowing it would be love that would again capture the audience’s attention. yet it took some time to fund .
thereafter, they strip down to their undershorts and plunge into the enveloping blueness of that derelict swimming pool. the action evokes baptism, rebirth, the safety of the womb and a range of other possible associations, but its main function is to unite the boys in their own world - away - from - the - world. boonyawatana shows them looking up from underneath the water, and gives us pov shots of the world above. in real life, of course, filthy water like this would be the ticket to a variety of eye ailments, but here we’re meant to focus on the sensory wonderment and romantic connection .
the relationship only really takes off when phum subsequently shows up at tam’s home, manages to remain unseen by tam’s mother by climbing up to the roof, and the two start hanging out. during a trip to a garbage dump that’s on land that used to belong to phum’s family, the film starts to move into much darker territory, as things seem to move underneath the trash and corpses, gunmen and other assorted bogeymen seem to appear both here and in other places - - and it becomes clear that at least some of these elements might be manifestations of tam’s subconscious. indeed, phum foreshadowed as much during their first meeting when he suggested there were ghosts present at the abandoned pool, a hint one should never take lightly in films from the country of filmmakers such as apichatpong weerasethakul .
yup. i still don' t know what this movie is. it' s creepy. it' s frustrating. time moves independently of the film. you' ll think you watched three minutes of a really slow movie and 15 minutes will have passed. at other times, you' ll insist that time has stopped altogether. i' m not sure what this movie is, but it is fascinating .
a cannes regular, the argentina - born french director loves to shock, though in the past he had dealt more with violence .
the story here opens at a place and time that also evoke that crucial color. at a rundown, abandoned swimming pool, in the bluish light of dusk, two boys who look about high - school age find each other, apparently having arranged the rendezvous on the internet. tam (attaphan poonsawas), the younger and prettier of the two, arrives bearing the scars of beatings by school bullies who presumably despise him for being gay. initially he seems a bit hesitant at the appearance of the more masculine and confidant phum (oabnithi wiwattanawarang), who could be another assailant. but the two boys have come here for the same thing, and they are soon groping their way through their first (clothed and non - explicit) sexual encounter .
i just really got curious of what really happened to the plot of the story so i basically watch the movie one more time and i just found out what this movie is all about though. lol: p
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after a while as glusman suggests, the sex becomes fairly matter of fact .
murphy (the maiden name of noé’s mother nora, born in argentina to an irish émigré father) becomes a dad and the woman he loves is gone .
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anyway, this was very much worth seeing. never read the reviews on netflix .
interestingly, love had been in the works long before irreversible and noé had wanted the then happily married couple, current bond woman monica bellucci and vincent cassel, to star .
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in the opening scene of this, there is a really heartbreakingly intimate scene between the two leads. i loved it. that was the end of what i loved about this movie. everything else did... not really connect for me and was mostly boring ?
he is, as the late great robert palmer once put it, addicted to love .
both of those selections get at the thing that most grabbed me about the movie, actually: it starts off like a pretty standard coming - of - age story featuring a sensitive gay boy and his more assertive, more experienced boyfriend, and then - - about halfway through - - it takes a turn into david lynchville, circa mulholland dr. there are junkyards full of corpses, dogs who just won' t die, possible hauntings. and all the while the movie is shot like... well, like a pretty standard coming - of - age story featuring a sensitive gay boy. i watched the film twice in a week and i still can' t figure out exactly what to do with it. for all of lynch' s weirdness, he is at least comforting in that you know what' s coming; his style and his content are closely aligned. what' s interesting - - and frustrating and intriguing - - about this movie is precisely the way in which, with a couple of exceptions, style and content don' t align .
“sometimes the addiction is more self - destructive, sometimes less. there is something in the chemicals when we’re in love that really drives us crazy. the movie shows that love is not only a land of pleasure and joy, but also a land of war and fear. ”
i didn' t even look at the ratings, so now i' m a bit nervous (the two reviews i posted are mixed - leaning - positive). even if it' s a bust, though, i' m curious to know how the movie strikes you .
tam (atthaphan poonsawas), whose bullies think nothing of leaving him beaten up and bleeding on the sports fields of their school, meets phum (oabnithi wiwattanawarang) at a pool complex that’s abandoned and somewhat eerie but at least offers the two total privacy. they’ve clearly hooked up via the internet and young tam' s obviously not familiar with the etiquette of random trysts, though here, and despite the not - exactly - sexy surroundings, he’s not shy to go after what he wants .
in this strange and haunting ghost story, a bullied gay teenager has a steamy tryst with a stranger he met on the internet, only to have the affair take on darker and more mysterious connotations .
tam, a victim of physical abuse at the hands of his family and classmates, meets phum, a mysterious teenage drifter, in an abandoned pool complex for a hookup. phum explains that the place is haunted before the two fool around, but a close relationship develops. tam’s fragile emotional state and illness mean reality begins to fall apart, toward a world where unseen spirits threaten—or aid? —the living .
so, there' s tam, a cute high school boy whom we meet after he' s had a beating. in an abandoned pool, he meets phum. they exchange handies. phum tells tam to exhale all the air and submerge himself in the pool. this is the last normal thing to happen .
that scene where the ghost or whatever it is appears is particularly good, i think, and for precisely the reasons you mention. it' s actually really tense - - though that may be my own inexperience with that kind of ghost - story talking - - but the tension is a build - up to something much more devastating (and i do find the end pretty devastating, even if i don' t understand it) .
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most of the reviews i' ve read focus on the movie' s interaction with lgbtq issues in thailand, and that' s certainly a major theme. but i think it' s only a major theme, depending on how you read the last twenty minutes or so (which i won' t spoil, on behalf of those who hate spoilers) .
glusman, who has a minor part in roland emmerich’s upcoming gay drama stonewall, was thrown in at the deep end .
“gaspar had decided to start with a close up of my genitals, ” he recalls of the first day of shooting .
a sexy supernatural love story about a bullied loner, tam, who finds solace in the arms of phum, a boy he meets at a haunted swimming pool. phum reveals that his family' s land has been stolen and the new found lovers imagine a perfect life together on the disputed land. haunted by a ghostly presence, tam struggles to stay connected to reality .
“the good thing about this movie is all the people i proposed to be on - screen knew my previous movies and knew we were doing something valuable, a real movie about a real subject — love — and not something dirty, ” noé says .
“it’s more like a joke rather than creating a scandal. i wanted to have fun, to play with the audience. ”
it does have a lot of things i like in films: gays, sad hugs, water metaphors; but i had a hard time adjusting to the constant genre switch. surprisingly, the ending (what an ending) didn' t completely lost me .
eventually the story swirls into a lynchian hellscape at half speed. you' re bored to tears by the lethargic pace, but simultaneously there' s nothing but entertainment. the two boys make out in a garbage dump. there' s a body count. mold is involved. it' s all dream logic - y and maybe not even in chronological order. somebody may have schizophrenia .
interesting for awhile, but it was just too enigmatic ultimately to connect with me. i did appreciate the filmmaking craft on display .
though he will say the ejaculation scene was 70% as it happened and that he added one additional spray squarely aimed at audiences .
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thing is, i don' t think that the ending is particularly sugary. for one thing, the reality - dream stuff is so mixed up here that i' m not convinced that the last shot isn' t also in tam' s head. for another - - well, on first viewing my impression was that tam was leading phum out into the water in order to commit murder - suicide (this reading would depend on taking the death of tam' s family as a real - world event). on second viewing, i was less certain. but, whatever' s going on there, it certainly isn' t sweetness - and - light. it isn' t sugary .
tam, a timid loner, is bullied regularly by his fellow pupils at school. he is met with similar rejection and suspicion within the narrow confines of his parents’ dingy home, where his father beats him. one day tam arranges online to meet phum at a derelict swimming pool. they are both looking for sex, but their encounter leaves them with a feeling of comfort and security. a close bond develops between the two boys and, before long, they are roaming the rubbish heaps and dark corners of the city together, day and night. phum opens a door for tam, revealing a fantastical parallel universe full of spirits and dangerous encounters. although he feels safe and loved for the first time in his life, tam can no longer differentiate between dream and reality and finds himself increasingly drawn into a spiral of paranoia and violence. in his feature debut boonyawatana leads his protagonist into an ambiguous microcosm full of chasms, at the same time cleverly toying with the conventions of different genres .
for the music i gave it a 1. 0 because honestly i don' t really recall their being any music until the very end sadly and i was looking forward well i' m always looking forward to music in horror movies that' s just cause i' m weird .
after a somewhat nervous and quick first sexual encounter (nudity and sex are more often suggested than actually shown), the two get talking around the pool and tam reveals something of his day - to - day misery at school and at home, where his mother (duangjai hirunsri) whines about his father hating
it
( i. e. , his sexual orientation) and wonders out loud why her son can’t have any pity on her and simply ignore his desire to be with men. though it’s clear why the uncomfortable scenes with tam’s family are needed, boonyawatana and co - screenwriter waasuthep ketpetch don’t do themselves any favors here with some extremely didactic and on - the - nose (at least in the subtitles) dialogue .
it may not be
goo - goo eyed ,
but it does appear that the principals don' t have a body hair between them. i' ve thought before that the word
hairless
is often code for something else, but i haven' t figured out quite what .
i' ve thought before that the word
hairless
is often code for something else, but i haven' t figured out quite what .
one of the things that' s interesting to me here - - and this is related to the genre - play alluded to above - - is the fact that these boys are very much types. if much of this movie is in tam' s head, it makes sense to me that phum might wind up being much more typically seme (to cross from one asian country to another) - - though i think he' s not just that .
ok, so i mentioned this movie in another thread and made a (fruitless) inquiry on facebook about it a few weeks back, but i' m wondering if anyone has gotten a chance to watch this movie? trailer and some review links and then my thoughts. if you want to watch the movie unspoiled (which i did), i' d advise skipping the trailer, which really doesn' t get at the central weirdness of this movie :
they had demurred on the explicit sex, yet violent french films (including their pairing in jan kounen’s ultra - violent thriller dobermann) didn’t pose such a threat .
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“what i wanted to do is represent in cinema something that’s important for me that for commercial reasons isn’t represented properly. the system of cinema rating is totally old - fashioned. ”
“almost every [ male ] actor i approached about doing the specific scenes was happy to do it, ” noé admits. “men have no issues especially about showing their penis erect. ”
still he never forgets her and withers away in a small parisian apartment, drowning in the memories of his lustier times involving threesomes, those paris sex clubs, and encounters with transvestite prostitutes .
eventually realising that stars wouldn’t be up for it, he found karl glusman, an american actor from the bronx, and managed to convince two french women aomi muyock and klara kristin to participate .
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the story of a bullied teenager tam who befriends and has a sexual relationship with a mysterious gay boy phum at a haunted abandoned pool. their affair starts out as a romance but, later, shifts to a darker territory .
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i' ve got some ideas, but even the code here would be pretty maddeningly contextual. like, i' m not sure there' s an agreed - upon code, just a general feeling of code - ish - ness .
overall i gave it a 9. 0 / 10 because i enjoy horror movies and have a love hate relationship with them and this one was on more of the creepy scary side with a jump scare and i like things like that .
i rated the story a 5. 0 / 10 only because phum was basically leading tam to a dark place in life and that' s not something anyone should be doing to somebody especially when they' re going through what tam has gone through .
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“in most societies whether they’re western or not, people want to control the sexual behaviour or to organise it in a precise context. sex is like a danger zone. sometimes class barriers fall down and it scares a lot of people. it’s about states controlling their systems, like religion. ”
i' m about to give it a shot. i note that it has remarkably low ratings on imdb and netflix, but, on the other hand, experience suggests that if something strikes nbooth as weird, it' s very weird - enough to be at least interesting. another preliminary observation going in :
the movie is actually i wouldn' t say really scary unless you get terrified easily but it was very creepy like scary creepy and there is a scene that you must be careful of cause you may not be sleeping at night if you happen to be watching this at 8 o' clock at night, so yeah basically as it says it' s a horror movie .
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those would be family psychodrama, ghost story and crime drama. at home, tam has a fraught relationship with a mother (daungji hirunsri) who sternly disapproves of his homosexuality but never entirely withdraws her love. there’s mention of a father who also disapproves and a brother who has criminal connections. with the bullies at school and these antagonisms at home, tam seems besieged from all sides, but his new love proves to be reliable ally as well as a means of entering other, stranger realms .
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eh, not for me. has a couple beautiful shots and decent moments / moods, but it' s so slow and then goes full david lynch. but hey, at least now i' ve seen at least one gay thai ghost mindfuck movie .
i have no idea what it' s about but i loved it? ?? what a mindfuck .
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anyway, thoughts appreciated. it' s on netflix us, but i' m not sure where else it' s available .
my interest in contemporary thai cinema and my enjoyment of apichatpong and lynch (joe has said he' s a fan of lynch) means i will make an effort to track this down if it becomes available in canada .
i have no idea, since i' m unfamiliar with french in general .
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“i didn’t ask karl to show me but i knew a girl who slept with him and she said he is ‘gifted’. ”
glusman said he quickly got used to a minimum of six people staring at his private parts .
noé’s stance has long been that he doesn’t want audiences to know which bits are for real .
“in what you call ‘adult movies’ there are no feelings at all. you never see people kissing or talking about pregnancy. you never see any girl having her periods and you never see a girl with regular pubic hair. it’s like a separate world that has nothing to do with normal life .
as with nymphomaniac, by another cinematic renegade, lars von trier, love isn’t as titillating as it might seem .
he plays murphy, a self - obsessed filmmaker, who is in a happy relationship with electra (muyock) until a night of lust with his neighbour omi (kristin) and a broken condom leads to a pregnancy .
of course powerful or famous people are highly susceptible, as well as directors like murphy and noé .
and, at 51, noé says he still likes going to night clubs. still a bad boy indeed .
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the blue hour ( thai : onthakan ) is a 2015 thai horror film directed by anucha boonyawatana . it was screened in the panorama section of the 65th berlin international film festival . 
the blue hour (thai: onthakan) is a 2015 thai horror film directed by anucha boonyawatana. it was screened in the panorama section of the 65th berlin international film festival.
the blue hour (thai: onthakan) is a 2015 thai horror film directed by anucha boonyawatana. it was screened in the panorama section of the 65th berlin international film festival.