Technicolor guts splatter in slow motion against the walls of the bandit hideout, and the government police close in. Just in the nick of time, The Black Tiger, that famous Thai bandit, appears on the horizon and blasts everyone away with a bazooka. This pretty much sums up Tears Of The Black Tiger, the latest and greatest and only Thai movie now playing in New York City.

The plot is a love story and a throwback to classic Cowboy Westerns, but this is secondary to how the film looks. The color scheme is crazy, think of a 1970s Caribbean casino palette on acid. The entire movie was filmed on location in rural Thailand and shot on old film stock, so it has that soulful and grainy quality. Check it out if you need to get a foreign film fix. It’s playing at The Film Forum now through February 1st.

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