Cannes. Ploy.

"Ploy represents [Pen-Ek] Ratanaruang's continued evolution," writes Todd Brown at Twitch. "It is another step further down the road he began to chart with Last Life in the Universe. Though there is a crime element to it, as there is in every one of Ratanaruang's films, the film far more resembles the work of his countryman Apichatpong Weerasethakul than it does Tarantino - to whom his early films drew frequent comparisons - while also inviting a re-evaluation of his previous film, Invisible Waves, as a necessary step taken to arrive here. And, yes, it is very good."

"Thai auteur Pen-ek Ratanaruang's most mature, measured film to date, Ploy offers a darkly poetic variation on the theme of The Seven Year Itch," writes Lee Marshall for Screen Daily. "This is such a tasty slice of cinema, by turns onieric, erotic, funny and emotionally perceptive, that it could easily have made the Cannes competition rather than the Quinzaine [Directors' Fortnight] sidebar. Ploy imposes its own unhurried rhythm but then rewards its viewers for their indulgence."

But Variety's Russell Edwards finds it all "too flimsy and false to truly engage."

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Cannes @ 60. Index.

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Posted by dwhudson at May 23, 2007 1:47 PM