Mammoth (2009)

Recommended

Sweden/Denmark/Germany

Feature Film

Original Title: Mammut

Writer/Director: Lukas Moodysson

Cinematographer: Marcel Zyskind

Composers: Linus Gierta, Erik Holmquist, Jesper Kurlandsky

Cast: Gael García Bernal, Michelle Williams, Marife Necesito, Sophie Nyweide, Tom McCarthy, Run Srinikornchot, Jan David G. Nicdao, Martin Delos Santos, Maria Esmeralda del Carmen, Perry Dizon

A games designer travels to Thailand to sign a lucrative contract, and reluctantly becomes involved with a beautiful young prostitute, whilst his sensitive, surgeon wife struggles to come to terms with the circumstances that led to the hospitalisation of one of her patients, and their nanny, who looks after their lively, inquisitive daughter, strives to earn enough money to give her young sons, who still live with their father in the Philippines, a good start in life, in Moodysson’s affectingly acted, multi-stranded critique of globalisation and commodification. Iain.Stott