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Same same but different.
Next month will be the premier of the new movie same same but different.SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT tells an unusual and moving love story. After finishing school Benjamin, a young German, goes on a long journey through Asia. In Phnom Penh he meets the Cambodian girl Sreykeo and instantly falls in love with her. It is only a...fter their first night together that he discovers she works as a bargirl. Nevertheless he enjoys the time he spends with her in this mysterious country torn between modernity and belief in ancient spirits. Back in Germany he realizes that he wants to fight for his love and has to take responsibility for it. Against all odds he tries the impossible: To remain together with Sreykeo for always. SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT is a story written by life: In February 2006, Benjamin Prüfer published an autobiographical account in a magazine. The overwhelming number of reactions by readers caused him to write the autobiographical novel “Same same but different”. Director Detlev Buck knew that this was the material he had been looking for as soon as he had read the manuscript. “Ever since film school I had wanted to make a film that not only touches on the subject of love but deals with nothing else. But no love story offered itself. Now with the true story of Benjamin and Sreykeo finally the moment had come to make the film”, says Buck.
The scenes in PP give you the feel the city had 10 years ago.
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The scenes in PP give you the feel the city had 10 years ago.
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Seems a well organised launch.
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http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/films ... tdifferenthttp://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/films/samesamebutdifferent wrote:Kate Winslet bared all in The Reader, but it was the young German actor David Kross who surprised audiences as her lover. Conveying an almost alarming sensitivity onscreen, Kross is able to play both innocence and the cruelty that sometimes lies beneath it. In Same Same but Different, he explores new levels of moral complexity in a story that feels both thoroughly contemporary and desperately romantic.
Kross plays Ben, a young man in search of adventure who flies off to Cambodia with his best friend. During the first days, it's the typical round of Third World getaway stuff. The pair check out tourist sites and cheap drugs, and even get the chance to fire a rocket launcher in a farmer's field. But then Ben meets Sreykeo (Apinya Sakuljaroensuk), a young Cambodian woman. She'd be a much safer bet if she were also typical. Instead, Sreykeo confounds the expected commercial exchange between a rich, callow Western man and a poor Cambodian woman. She is not simply a prostitute, but neither is she above asking Ben for money. In a series of beautifully shot encounters set to spare chamber music and melancholy Euro-pop, Ben and Sreykeo fall in love.
Here director Detlev Buck appears to be channelling Lost in Translation and In the Mood for Love, as this, too, is a story of illicit love drenched in minor chords and urban decay. The difference is that Sreykeo is HIV-positive. Establishing that fact in the first scene then shifting to show both its revelation and its consequences, Buck unsettles the ground under the viewer's feet. The stakes are high for both lovers, but not merely in obvious ways.
Both Kross and the Thai actress Sakuljaroensuk capture the discomfort and desire of two people drawn to each other across a chasm of difference. When Ben visits Sreykeo's home, he is too big for the cramped space. But when his vacation ends and his plane home beckons, he is suddenly small. And because this film is anything but typical, the story cannot end there.
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No Khmer could play the part naturally, so after weeks of casting in PP they gave up and casted a Thai.(They really tried)
The film is currently awaiting approval by the ministry of culture.
The premier should be next month at the German film festival in Phnom Penh.
The movie has already won an award and received good critics at the Locarno Film Festival.
The film is currently awaiting approval by the ministry of culture.
The premier should be next month at the German film festival in Phnom Penh.
The movie has already won an award and received good critics at the Locarno Film Festival.
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[quote="mota"]No Khmer could play the part naturally, so after weeks of casting in PP they gave up and casted a Thai.(They really tried)
Okay, but why go for a title that's a clapped out old Thai cliche? Clearly aimed ay a Western audience with no sense of discrimination or distinction between local rivals. For all that, the synopsis does look very good. Is the movie in German/Europeanish with English subtitles or what?
Okay, but why go for a title that's a clapped out old Thai cliche? Clearly aimed ay a Western audience with no sense of discrimination or distinction between local rivals. For all that, the synopsis does look very good. Is the movie in German/Europeanish with English subtitles or what?
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Clapped out Thai cliche? its a south-east asian traveller cliche. i think there's a same same but different guest house in both PP and SR.andyinasia wrote:mota wrote:No Khmer could play the part naturally, so after weeks of casting in PP they gave up and casted a Thai.(They really tried)
Okay, but why go for a title that's a clapped out old Thai cliche? Clearly aimed ay a Western audience with no sense of discrimination or distinction between local rivals. For all that, the synopsis does look very good. Is the movie in German/Europeanish with English subtitles or what?
I think many of you Cambo-based expats are splitting hairs over the finer details. which i guess is fair enough. But remember that making a movie creates numerous challenges, and one is authenticity vs marketability/practicality. I cant really be assed posting a further explanation, but im sure my point is made.
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Sure, but then so is Steven Leather's 'Private Dancer' novel. I read that before I first came out to SE Asia and I was engrossed. Once I located myself here I found it to be pretty authentic (well, like this film it was mostly (auto)biographical). This one is looking promising, and you know me - ever the sucker for a traumatic real-life SE Asian love story!SunSan wrote:It seems to be the standard bar girl story.
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@ andyinasia the movie will have a German version and an international means Khmer ( as Ben didn't speak Khmer only locals speak Khmer)English(most scenes in Cambodia) German(some scenes in Cambodia and most in Germany) spoken version.
@ sunsan if i tell you if they're still together or not I think It would spoil the movie.
When Ben comes back after his holiday and get's the call from Sreykeo that she'd hiv pos he runs to the streets of wintry Hamburg, he mets an old friend who starts telling him about how good his internship with his bank is and how he will be there forever, then he asks Ben and what are you doing? Ben answers I'm going to get an Hiv test now . This scene reminded me how far away my life is from the lifes of old friends in the west.
If you watch the movie and ever had an serious relationship with a bargirl you will find similarities to your relationship(hope not the hiv thing, by the way no spoiler as it's on every page about the movie)
Also a nice flashback of the Penh before Lexies on the streets.
The scenes where they go to Kampong Chnang to meet her family will bring memories to some of you.
This film is surely made for an international audience, but I think even long term expats will find some accurate scenes straight out of life.
From all the films dealing with Cambodia this is my favorite by miles.
There will be a screening on the 8 October in PP. with the Director and Cast.
Will post details asap.
@ sunsan if i tell you if they're still together or not I think It would spoil the movie.
When Ben comes back after his holiday and get's the call from Sreykeo that she'd hiv pos he runs to the streets of wintry Hamburg, he mets an old friend who starts telling him about how good his internship with his bank is and how he will be there forever, then he asks Ben and what are you doing? Ben answers I'm going to get an Hiv test now . This scene reminded me how far away my life is from the lifes of old friends in the west.
If you watch the movie and ever had an serious relationship with a bargirl you will find similarities to your relationship(hope not the hiv thing, by the way no spoiler as it's on every page about the movie)
Also a nice flashback of the Penh before Lexies on the streets.
The scenes where they go to Kampong Chnang to meet her family will bring memories to some of you.
This film is surely made for an international audience, but I think even long term expats will find some accurate scenes straight out of life.
From all the films dealing with Cambodia this is my favorite by miles.
There will be a screening on the 8 October in PP. with the Director and Cast.
Will post details asap.