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Blissfully Yours is a 2002
2002 in film

The year '2002 in film' involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Stuart Litt...
 Thai
Cinema of Thailand

The cinema of Thailand dates back to the History of film, when Chulalongkorn's 1897 visit to Berne, Switzerland was recorded by Francois-Henri Lavancy-Clarke....
 romance film
Romance film

While most films have some aspect of Romantic love between characters a romance film can be loosely defined as any film in which the central Plot revolves around the romantic involvement of the story's protagonists....
 directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul

'Apichatpong Weerasethakul' is a Thai independent film film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Tropical Malady, which won a Jury Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Blissfully Yours, which won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, and Syndromes and a C...
. It won the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival , founded in 1946, is one of the world's oldest, most influential and prestigious film festivals alongside Venice Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival....
.

Synopsis
Min is an illegal Burmese
Myanmar

Burma, officially the Union of Myanmar, is the largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia, or Indochina. The country is bordered by the People's Republic of China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, and the Bay of Bengal to the southwest with...
 immigrant living in Thailand
Thailand

The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar....
 who's contracted a mysterious rash
Rash

A rash is a change of the skin which affects its color, appearance, or texture. A rash may be localized in one part of the body, or affect all the skin....
. His girlfriend, Roong, and an older woman, Orn, take him to see a doctor.






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Blissfully Yours is a 2002
2002 in film

The year '2002 in film' involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Stuart Litt...
 Thai
Cinema of Thailand

The cinema of Thailand dates back to the History of film, when Chulalongkorn's 1897 visit to Berne, Switzerland was recorded by Francois-Henri Lavancy-Clarke....
 romance film
Romance film

While most films have some aspect of Romantic love between characters a romance film can be loosely defined as any film in which the central Plot revolves around the romantic involvement of the story's protagonists....
 directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul

'Apichatpong Weerasethakul' is a Thai independent film film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Tropical Malady, which won a Jury Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Blissfully Yours, which won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, and Syndromes and a C...
. It won the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival , founded in 1946, is one of the world's oldest, most influential and prestigious film festivals alongside Venice Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival....
.

Synopsis


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Min is an illegal Burmese
Myanmar

Burma, officially the Union of Myanmar, is the largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia, or Indochina. The country is bordered by the People's Republic of China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, and the Bay of Bengal to the southwest with...
 immigrant living in Thailand
Thailand

The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar....
 who's contracted a mysterious rash
Rash

A rash is a change of the skin which affects its color, appearance, or texture. A rash may be localized in one part of the body, or affect all the skin....
. His girlfriend, Roong, and an older woman, Orn, take him to see a doctor. But the doctor is unable to do anything because Min is forbidden to speak, since he might reveal he is Burmese. Nonetheless, as is customary in Thai hospitals, some medicine is prescribed.

Orn is not satisfied, however, and she stops to buy some more supplies and then goes to her husband's office, where she concocts some lotion
Lotion

A lotion is a low- to medium-viscosity, topical preparation intended for application to unbroken skin; creams and gels have a higher viscosity. Most lotions are oil-in-water emulsions using a substance such as Cetearyl alcohol to keep the emulsion together, but water-in-oil lotions are also formulated....
 made with from store-bought creams and chopped vegetables and instructs Roong to slather it on Min.

Roong works in a factory, painting ceramic figurines. It's painstaking work, and she does not want to work after having worked overtime the day before. She feigns an illness and takes off with Min. She drives into the countryside, with the plan of having a picnic
Picnic

In contemporary usage, picnic can be defined simply as a pleasure excursion at which a meal is eaten outdoors , ideally taking place in a beautiful landscape such as a park, beside a lake or with an interesting view and possibly at a public event such as before an open air theatre performance, and usually in Summer....
 in the forest where she and Min can make love.

Orn, meanwhile, is longing for love. She steals her husband's motorcycle
Motorcycle

A motorcycle is a Single track, two-wheeled motor vehicle powered by an Motorcycle engine. Motorcycles vary considerably depending on the task for which they are designed, such as Touring motorcycle travel, navigating Naked bike, Cruiser , Motorcycle sport and Motorbike racing, or off-road conditions....
 and goes into the jungle to meet Tommy, a worker at the factory. They have sex just off the roadside, but are interrupted when the motorcycle is stolen. Tommy chases after the thief and disappears.

Unsatisfied, Orn wanders deeper into the woods and stumbles upon Min and Roong, who have just finished making love.

Cast

  • Kanokporn Tongaram as Roong
  • Min Oo as Min
  • Jenjira Jansuda as Orn


Title sequence and soundtrack

The opening title credits roll about 45 minutes into the film, during Roong and Min's drive into the jungle. Roong turns on the car radio and the music playing is a Thai-language version of "Summer Samba (So Nice)
Summer Samba

Summer Samba is a 1966 in music bossa nova song by Brazil composer Marcos Valle, with English language lyrics by Norman Gimbel; the original Portuguese lyrics came from Paulo S?rgio Valle, brother to the composer....
", composed by Marcos Valle
Marcos Valle

Marcos Kostenbader Valle is a Brazilian singer, songwriter and record producer. He has produced works in many musical styles, including bossa nova, samba, incidental music and fusions of American/European rock and dance music with Brazilian styles....
 and sung by the Thai artist, Nadia.

Alternate versions

Because of its graphic sex scenes, the film was censored
Censorship

Censorship is the suppression of freedom of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful or sensitive, as determined by a censor....
 in Thailand, with about 10 minutes cut from the Thai DVD release.

Festivals and awards

  • 2002 Cannes Film Festival
    Cannes Film Festival

    The Cannes Film Festival , founded in 1946, is one of the world's oldest, most influential and prestigious film festivals alongside Venice Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival....
     - Un Certain Regard Prize.
  • 2002 Thessaloniki Film Festival - Golden Alexander.
  • 2002 Tokyo FilmEx
    Tokyo Filmex

    Tokyo Filmex is an annual film festival established in 2000. This film festival was launched by Office Kitano, which is Takeshi Kitano's film company....
     - Grand Prize.
  • 2003 International Film Festival Rotterdam
    International Film Festival Rotterdam

    The International Film Festival Rotterdam is an annual film festival held in various cinemas in Rotterdam, Netherlands at the end of January. It is one of the larger film festivals in Europe, arguably in the Big Five, alongside Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, and Locarno International Film...
     - Circle of Dutch Film Critics (KNF) Award.
  • 2003 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
    Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema

    The Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente is an international Film festival of independent films organized each year in the month of April, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina....
     - Best director and FIPRESCI
    FIPRESCI

    FIPRESCI , in English language known as International Federation of Film Critics, is an association of the national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June, 1930 in...
     Prize.
  • 2003 Singapore International Film Festival
    Singapore International Film Festival

    The Singapore International Film Festival was launched in 1987. The festival is an Year film event, held around April/May each year, and screens about 300 films from over 45 countries....
     - Young Cinema Award


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