Euthana Mukdasanit – Peesua lae dokmai AKA Butterfly and Flowers (1986)
Time Out Film Guide wrote:
An exceptionally beautiful movie set among Thailand’s Muslim minority in villages near the Malaysian border, and centering on a bright teenage kid forced to drop out of school and support his family by turning small-time smuggler. Impossible to convey its qualities without falling back on turn-off words like ‘charm’ and ‘sensitivity’, but the fact is that it succeeds in evoking the trials, terrors and excitements of childhood with an immediacy that’s both sweet and tough. There’s an eye-opening blend of universal and local elements: trouble with punks at a rock concert, daredevil feats on the roof of a moving train. And it offers the joy of seeing a director in full control of his medium. (Tony Rayns)
Sight & Sound wrote:
… adapted from a respected novel about Thailand’s Musim minority, but nothing could be less ‘literary’ than its grasp of the joys and terrors of a child forced into an adult role, or its flair for evanescent images, or the gymnastic spirit of its camerawork…
… for the most part blessed with a visual fluency and resourcefulness worthy of the young Raoul Coutard…
… sweet, unquenchably moral and very beautiful. It is also quite unlike any other Thai film…
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https://nitro.download/view/A539BB10BBCFC95/Butterfly_and_Flowers.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/90696F98CEABBAE/Butterfly_and_Flowers.srt
Language(s):Thai
Subtitles:English
the sub does not go with this video.Very out of synch.
another sub added in post..