Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grief and ghosts aren’t new territory for any national cinema — and this is perhaps particularly true of Thailand. But, “A Useful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Couched in a similarly fantastical and appliance-based frame/love story between a man with a new vacuum (Wisarut Homhuan) and the ...

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s stylish and unique movie features an unquiet spirit that inhabits a vacuum cleaner, before political interests intervene ...

A judgmental family stares at a haunted vacuum cleaner in "A Useful Ghost." Credit: Best Friend Forever / TIFF Yes, in A Useful Ghost, there's a make-out scene between a man and a vacuum cleaner.

When Thai filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachok set out to make A Useful Ghost, he wasn't thinking about awards. He was thinking about dust. The film, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes Critics' Week ...

A ghost-possessed vacuum cleaner might sound like standard horror fare, but in the hands of Thai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, it transforms into a sly commentary on pollution, power dynamics, ...

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Every once in a while at a film festival, I stumble upon a film so strange and quirky that I can’t help being won over by its audaciousness and that perfectly describes writer/director Ratchapoom ...

Absurd inanimate object cinema is having a moment. Forget the simplistic joke of killer-tire movie Rubber; the forthcoming indie comedy By Design, the Sundance film from last year where Juliette Lewis ...