CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

ThurstonHunger You know Chatterley almost sounds like a Thai word. This film offers both the sensual and certainly the sexual; smoke and ice intertwined with darker aspects of sex, dark as in vengeance and darker as in violence.The women are separated pretty strictly into madonnas and whores, and Jun Dara, the product of the most brutal sex act in the film, seems to struggle against his fate. His adoration of his mother, his pure rapture with Hyacinth, and hist relationship with the most interesting character in the film, Aunt Waad. Waad is portrayed amazingly by Wipawee Charoenpura, although I fear she is lost somewhat in the bevy of beauties in the film. All of them with gorgeous great Gatsby hairdos, kudos to the coiffeuse!Charoenpura is attractive, but shows more of her heart than merely her bosom (although a scene with that in it is key to the film). Christy Chung is breathtaking, and while you do see her in flagrante, really the visual and thematic foreplay is even more arousing. Interesting that she is seen as a specifically Western wind blowing through this film, I suspect the book makes more of that.People seem to get hung up on the coitus in this film, but I think the exploitation here that the director wants to explore is equally emotional in nature. Is Jun Dara a sympathetic character or an unsympathetic one. Seeing as we start with him as a child, one could argue for the former, but then the nature of his birth is that supposed to push us towards the latter. Khun Luang is another one that could have been seen more favorably, as the story unravels...but he is not. In a way he nobly rescued a woman in trouble, and he seems to be truly grief-stricken early in the film...Ultimately that's what makes this a fascinating film for me, a sort of shattering of easy good|bad divisions, but as the story revolves so much around the fleshy throes and peccadilloes, the film feels more sordid than I think it wants to be? Plus all the "good" women die or become nuns? The short monologue at the end, trying to paint Jun Dara as an everyman was interesting, but it doesn't work well since we've not seen much of his everyness. Instead innocence comes across as an illusion, or maybe for the characters in this an impossibility.Still a compelling watch, and more than the Asian bodice-ripper it appears to some as. I should say the camera-work was as delicate and teased out as the tresses of the fetching though fatally flawed femmes... I look forward to seeing other films by Nimibutr. I bet they also involve twists of fate...that's a four-letter word that's trickier than a lot of others.6/10

im_your_cuddler8 The movie is about Jan Dara, telling his childhood to manhood experiences under the roof of his own home. The cruelty of his father that lead him to hate him more as he grows old. Jan Dara's sexual experiences from her sister's nanny, mistress of his father who taught him well as the story progress. This movie is well told, superb cinematography!, excellent performance from the main characters in the movie. I must say that the flow of the story is well defined unlike the usual foreign movies I've seen. The so-called "erotic scenes" are subtle yet the passion is can be seen and felt. Gonna give this rate of 10 as the highest! worth it! never mind those critics who keep on saying that this movie is a crap! Well...I beg to disagree! Watch this, and find out for yourself...Bye.

tim777ca The silly story is aimed at X-rate audiences, with phony "arty" treatment. The film has neither depth nor characterization. Everybody in the movie is doing hanky-panky without closing their doors, yet you don't see anything exciting. Emmanuelle series are a lot better. Save both your money and energy!

chp9995 Movies with sensual theme have not been made very well made until "JanDara". Unfortunately, the movie has been cut, chopped, diced and sliced heavily by the censorship committee that the real impact of the story was loosened somewhat. However, the plot by itself is still entertaining enough to deserve a viewing. The film was very well crafted but will some minor flaws; acting seems inconsistent among actors as is film editing. There's nothing new in the cinematography area but the music is excellent, though some sections do have resemblances to "Bad Land", a movie made in the 70's. Despite the movie's retro-setting, I do not particularly like the use of sepia-toned in the film because it distances the characters from the audiences.The story line is very well combed and has a few plot twists along the way to its climactic revelation. The dark side of the Thai cultures were exploited with added flavoring, though some might argue that it's totally fictitious, the story could very well be true. Sexuality is a taboo in Thai culture, and could be a little awkward for Thais to be absorbed by the movie, but the film could do very well in the 'art house and international' category. Just leave the film as director intended.