Country: Thailand
Directed by Tanwarin Sukkhapisit
A very unique, brave and revolutionary film in the history of Thai cinema "Insects in the backyard" depicts nudity, raw homosexual sex, prostitution, a patricide, themes that made the conservative Thai ministry of Culture to panic and to ban it immediately, claiming that it features negative portrayals of Thai society and it goes against Thai morals. Since then Insects in the backyard has a cult legendary status and it's in high regard by the Thai art film lovers, however it's not only its bold and daring content that made it such a significant film: with its fresh and modern style it belongs to just a handful of films that broke away from the fakeness of the old studio made commercial Thai cinema so emphatically and it opened the doors for many more art cinema films to follow
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