Heartbound 'a different love story'
The Danish/Thai documentary: Heartbound 'a different love story', is a film about the marriage migration of Thai women to a small village in Denmark. A universal subject but very personal family stories.
More than nine hundred Thai women who are married to Danes live in northern Jutland. This remarkable trend started 25 years ago when Sommai, a former Thai prostitute, married Niels from Jutland. Since then, Sommai has matched lonely Jutish men with poor Thai women from her hometown.
Award-winning director Janus Metz (Armadillo, Borg McEnroe) and his wife, the anthropologist Sine Plambech, followed four of these Thai-Danish couples for ten years. The result is an intimate and gripping chronicle about love and romance, dreams and misfortunes, life and death and what the concept of family means in various cultures.
Heartbound is winner of the Golden Eye Award for Best Documentary, Zurich International Film Festival 2018 and selected for the world premiere TIFF 2018 and for IDFA 2018.
'A loving, intimate film that undermines all the easy judgments you might have made beforehand about this kind of arranged marriage.' – The Green Amsterdammer
'Extraordinary film […] Heartbound offers an intimate glimpse into the human condition that one hopes to find in the best of documentaries.' – POV Magazine
Tickets for screenings at IDFA are now available via the website.
From 13 December in film theaters including:
AMERSFORT • The Lady
AMSTERDAM • De Balie
AMSTERDAM • Rialto
DEN BOSCH • Verkade factory
THE HAGUE • Filmhuis The Hague
EINDHOVEN • NatLab
GRONINGEN • Groninger Forum
HILVERSUM • Film theater Hilversum
MAASTRICHT • Lumière Cinema
ROTTERDAM • LantarenVenster
UTRECHT • Filmtheater 't Hoogt
A former prostitute, I disagree with that marking. In my eyes it is just a woman from poor Isaan, looking for a better life. And are all the women from Isaan who are or were also looking for a better life than prostitutes? The Isaan has long been ignored by the elite in Bangkok. Kept stupid, no good education, no investments to create jobs. In fact, Isan women are more or less forced to follow this path in order to earn a decent living. The attitude of many Isan Thai men towards Isan women also plays a role in this.
If I'm not mistaken, a similar documentary has already been made, namely Road to Paradise. Think about 5 years old. Also about Danes with Thai women.
There was the Danes documentary Road to Paradise with Thai women a few years ago. I've seen the preview and think it's an edited version with the same main characters.
Thought a deja vu for a moment, had seen a documentary about the same subject and the same community in Denmark, thought 10 years ago in which a number of couples were followed. Has anyone seen this one before?
Just to set something straight, it is not Road to Paradise but Ticket to Paradise from 2008 by the same director, has been broadcast on TV several times in the Netherlands and Belgium
Great, but how can you see that movie if you live in Thailand? Does anyone know?
Wait a minute… these kinds of (good) movies will soon come to TV land and then you can also download it or just watch it on TV….
It will be quite a beautiful and impressive film, but we have something
similar seen before.
At the beginning of 2012 we drew your attention to a special documentary from Friesland, see
https://www.thailandblog.nl/relaties/thaise-vrouwen-friesland
You can still see that documentary “Thai op de Klaai” here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGQ10EiZILM