Wednesday 11 January 2006, 18.30

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand/France/Germany/Italy 2004, 120’, subs, cert 12A

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s visionary Sud pralad traces the anatomy of desire between a soldier and a bashful country boy. Their contentment is abruptly disrupted, and the second half of the film follows the soldier into the heart of the jungle, where he hunts an elusive, murderous wild beast amidst tiger spirits and phantom cattle. Myth and reality become mysteriously and magically interchangeable. Weerasethakul has stated, ‘Sud pralad translates my attraction for virgin landscapes and mysteries. It's a song of love and obscurity’.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended

    

This event is related to the Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris exhibition