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Summary A happily married couple, and their seven-year-old son Dot. Nat dies of respiratory disease caused by air pollution.
Directed By: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
Written By: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, Geoffroy Grison
A Useful Ghost
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Summary A happily married couple, and their seven-year-old son Dot. Nat dies of respiratory disease caused by air pollution.
Directed By: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
Written By: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, Geoffroy Grison
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Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews
81
100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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May 29, 2025
For all its playfulness, there’s an intellectual heft to A Useful Ghost that exerts its own gravity.
May 24, 2025
Boonbunchachoke has made a darkly hilarious film that deserves to be remembered for much more than its shock value.
May 29, 2025
A Useful Ghost is an entertaining and moving – if also somewhat sprawling – fable of love and loss that isn’t quite like anything you’ve seen before.
May 29, 2025
Every detail, be they the mirthful jokes or the melancholic meditations it taps into, comes together to create a vision that’s existentially resonant. It proves Boonbunchachoke is not just an exciting new voice who pays respect to the ghosts of cinema’s past, but one who finds distinct beauty as he brings them all to joyous life.
May 29, 2025
Ratchapoom’s feature debut is a visually ambitious and thematically layered big swing that’s as polarising as it is creative.
By Elizabeth Kerr FULL REVIEW
Jun 5, 2025
A Useful Ghost should first and foremost be enjoyed as the mainstream accessible entertainment it is meant to be, let not its festival trappings deceive you. It will admittedly be a curiosity for Western audiences, but once in tune with its peculiar and particular modes of storytelling, they will find plenty to enjoy and unpack.
May 24, 2025
A surprising coda that leans into more genre-friendly jolts can feel at odds with what came before, yet A Useful Ghost marks an impressively ambitious, layered debut about a spirit’s ability to illuminate the ills and complications of modern life.
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Awards
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
