Hom Rong (The Overture)
A film from Thailand in the latest AFS Essential Cinema series. I don’t know enough about South-East Asian cinema to say anything illuminating about it, but Hom Rong was very watchable and nicely put together with an appealing story and lovely cinematography. Here’s a nice link to a blogpost about it, with pictures. Here’s the imdb entry. The star is an amazingly good-looking choirboy-type who looks like an Eton sixth-former.