2000 · war · historical · epic
Bang Rajan
Directed by Tanit Jitnukul1h 53m2000
Set right before the fall of Thailand's old capital, Ayuttaya, Bang Rajan draws on the legend of a village of fighters who bravely fended off the Burmese armies.
Our read: Bang Rajan (2000) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded war · historical · epic entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme war / historical, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
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