2007 · drama · romance · queer
The Love of Siam
Directed by Chookiat Sakveerakul2h 34m2007
Best friends as children, Mew and Tong run into each other years later as young men and find they have unexpected feelings for each other.
Our read: The Love of Siam (2007) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · romance · queer entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
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