ReviewLow Season film review: Thai supernatural romcom is slick, if flimsy, and carried by its likeable lead actors
- Nareubadee Wetchakam’s film is well-meaning and harmless fun, but its supernatural subplot isn’t fully exploited and makes little sense
- It’s also much too long, padded with static vignettes that add nothing to the central romance between Lin and budding screenwriter Pud
3/5 stars
Only the broken-hearted travel alone during low season. That’s the premise of Thai filmmaker Nareubadee Wetchakam’s romantic comedy, which follows a young woman as she flees Bangkok for Chiang Mai, on a journey that takes a supernatural twist.
Our heroine, Lin (Ploypailin Thangprapaporn), can see dead people – who seem to wander the Thai countryside in alarming numbers. So what was intended as a peaceful period of rest and recuperation, after she was dumped by her famous boyfriend, is punctuated by a series of spooky encounters.
Help, or rather a handsome distraction from the marauding ghosts, is at hand in the form of struggling screenwriter Pud (Mario Maurer), also nursing a broken heart as he seeks inspiration for his new horror movie. He is intrigued by Lin’s unconventional beauty and eccentric personality, and secretly uses her as the inspiration for his leading lady.
Lin is too distracted to notice him initially, haunted as she is by memories of Tor (Kidakarn Chatkaewmanee), her long-term boyfriend who found fame as a singer and left her for a glamorous actress. But when she and Pud are thrown together for the last leg of their journey north, they quickly hit it off. Lin’s unique knowledge of the hereafter might be just what is needed to bring them together.