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To order this film, please contact Camerawork Pty Ltd. With the end of his marriage, 43-year-old filmmaker Dennis O'Rourke is trying to understand how love can be simultaneously banal and profound. He comes to Bangkok, the fantasy mecca of exotic sex and painless love for Western men. When he meets a Thai prostitute he decides make a film about her. The "Good Woman" of the story is Aoi. In Thai, her name means "sugar cane" or "sweet" -- not her real name, but the one she uses. She works as a prostitute, catering to the male tourists who crowd the girlie bars of Patpong. Starting from this worst-possible condition their relationship is recorded: its evolution from fake sexual intimacy to collusion in the process of making the film and, finally to friendship and a kind of love. See also:
Running time: 82 min, Year released: 1995
Close captioned?: N, Color?: Y
Avail. formats: VHS
ISBN: 1-55974-575-4
Language: English, Subtitled?: N
For classroom?: Y, Study Guide?: N
Grade level: 10th and up
Reviews: "A provocative, deeply moving and even more deeply unsettling study of prostitution and the politics of love." -- The Gazette (Montreal) |
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This title can also be found in: Aging, Artists, Musicians & Performers, Autobiographies/Self-Portraits, Eastern Culture & History, Filmmakers & Filmmaking, O'Rourke, Dennis -- Films By, Relationships |
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