Blissfully Yours

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Blissfully Yours
The Thai film poster.
Directed by	Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Produced by	Eric Chan Charles de Meaux
Written by	Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Starring	Kanokporn Thong-aram Min Oo Jenjira Jansuda
Cinematography	Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
Editing by	Lee Chatametikool
Distributed by	Kick the Machine Anna Sanders Films
Release date(s)	May 17, 2002 August 13, 2002
Running time	125 min.
Country	Thailand
Language	Thai
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Blissfully Yours (Thai: สุดเสน่หา or Sud sanaeha) is a 2002 Thai romance film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. It won the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

1 Synopsis
2 Cast
3 Title sequence and soundtrack
4 Alternate versions
5 Festivals and awards
6 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The French film poster for Blissfully Yours.

Min is an illegal Burmese immigrant living in Thailand who's contracted a mysterious rash. His girlfriend, Roong, and an older woman, Orn, take him to see a doctor. But the doctor is unable to do anything because Min is forbidden to speak, since he might reveal he is Burmese. Nonetheless, as is customary in Thai hospitals, some medicine is prescribed.

Orn is not satisfied, however, and she stops to buy some more supplies and then goes to her husband's office, where she concocts some lotion made with from store-bought creams and chopped vegetables and instructs Roong to slather it on Min.

Roong works in a factory, painting ceramic figurines. It's painstaking work, and she really doesn't want to work that day, anyway. So she uses Min's ailment as an excuse to take off. She drives into the countryside, with the plan of having a picnic in the forest where she and Min can make love.

Orn, meanwhile, is longing for love. She steals her husband's motorcycle and goes into the jungle to meet Tommy, a worker at the factory. They have sex just off the roadside, but are interrupted when the motorcycle is stolen. Tommy chases after the thief and disappears.

Unsatisfied, Orn wanders deeper into the woods and stumbles upon Min and Roong, who have just finished making love.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Cast

Kanokporn Tongaram as Roong
Min Oo as Min
Jenjira Jansuda as Orn

[edit] Title sequence and soundtrack

The opening title credits roll about 45 minutes into the film, during Roong and Min's drive into the jungle. Roong turns on the car radio and the music playing is a Thai-language version of "Summer Samba (So Nice)", composed by Marcos Valle and sung by the Thai artist, Nadia.