Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s “A Useful Ghost” has picked up Critics Week’s Grand Prize. The film has been picking up fans among journalists since the premiere, intrigued by its absurd yet ...

Every once in a while at a film festival, I stumble upon a film so strange and quirky that I can’t help being won over by its ...

A ghost-possessed vacuum cleaner might sound like standard horror fare, but in the hands of Thai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, it transforms into a sly commentary on pollution, power ...

Thai writer-director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s A Useful Ghost, world premiering in the Critics’ Week lineup in Cannes during the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, is a ghost story but also ...

There’s a ghost in the machine in writer/director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s humorous and haunting gem of a feature debut “A Useful Ghost.” However, this is no mere twisty supernatural ...

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s Cannes-premiering A Useful Ghost is a multilayered cinematic extravaganza (and feat) that manages to seamlessly combine several deep themes: toxic pollution, soulless ...

Writer-director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's comedy-drama premiered in Cannes' Critics' Week strand. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic It starts off farcically with household and ...

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's "A Useful Ghost" has picked up Critics Week's Grand Prize. The jury, presided over by Rodrigo Sorogoyen and featuring Jihane Bougrine, Josée Deshaies, Yulina Evina ...