An alpine thriller with a romantic subplot, it’s based on a true account of two climbing parties racing to summit the highest peak in the Alps. Tomorrow it’s “7th Heaven” at 6.30pm, a 1927 American release about a sewer worker who falls in love with a poor woman in Paris during World War I. It was an inspiration for “Sawan Mued” (“Dark Heaven”, 1958) directed by Ratana Pestonji. At 8.30pm the 1915 crime thriller “Filibus” unspools its tale of a sky pirate wreaking havoc on billionaires and bankers from her airship. The festival closes at 8.30pm with “Speedy”, Harold Lloyd’s last silent film, about a baseball-crazy young man in New York who cannot hold a job.

Source: The Nation Bangkok May 23, 2019 21:56 UTC