Locarno Open Doors Winner ‘A Useful Ghost’ Uses Dust and a Ghostly Vacuum Cleaner to Comment on Thai Politics
Will Thorne Staff WriterThere is a lot that Thai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke cannot say about his new project “A Useful Ghost.” But then again, when audiences in Thailand see the film, they will know exactly what it means.Set primarily in a family home, “A Useful Ghost” tells the story of a couple, March and Nat, and their young son Dot. March runs a vacuum cleaner factory, but ironically, one day Nat dies from a respiratory disease caused by air pollution in the area.