Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's zany romantic drama A Useful Ghost has won the top prize at Cannes Critics' Week. The feature, which is the first Thai film to play in the parallel section for a number of ...

In "A Useful Ghost", Davika "Mai" Hoorne -- a model and actor with 18 million followers on Instagram -- plays a woman who returns from the dead and haunts a vacuum cleaner to comfort her husband.

In “A Useful Ghost”, Davika “Mai” Hoorne — a model and actor with 18 million followers on Instagram — returns from the dead and haunts a vacuum cleaner to comfort her husband.

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 dynamics, ...

Film director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, who won a top prize at the Cannes Festival on Wednesday, recruited a major influencer for his off-the-wall gay comedy with a political punch. In "A Useful ...