For North American arthouse fans, little has been heard of from Thai filmmaker Pen-Ek Ratanaruang in the last while (other than “Nymph” a picture that played at Cannes 2009 that we missed and never came out in the U.S.). Best known on these shores for his films “6ixtynin9” and “Last Life In The Universe,” he’s not had a film get distribution in North America since 2006’s “Invisible Waves.” But his newest definitely sounds like one we want to see.
Ratanaruang will start production soon on an adaptation of author Win Lyovarin’s novel “Rain In Blue.” As far as we know, the book hasn’t been translated into English but it’s described as “a hitman tale with hard boiled noir overtones.”
The film will go in front of cameras next month which probably means it won’t start doing any festival rounds until next year. But the project sounds intriguing and we can’t wait to see how Ratanaruang, who has a discerning visual eye, brings a noir world to the big screen.
