Citizen Dog

'We can't always find the thing we're looking for. But when we stop looking, it'll come and look for us,' says a character in the stylish Thai comedy Citizen Dog.

In the film, country bumpkin Pod (Mahasamutr 'Jean' Boonyarak) goes to Bangkok in search of work.

Instead of landing a high-income job, Pod finds love. The girl of his dreams is Jin, a wide-eyed maid who, when she's not compulsively mopping the floor, is obsessively reading a book that has dropped from the sky.

But Jin, played by model Sangthong 'Jeed' Ket-Utong, pays little heed to Pod. She's more interested in the book, which is written in an unfamiliar language. After she comes across a foreign environmental activist carrying the same book, she believes has something to do with saving the world from global warming.

She sees the man as a saint and decides to dedicate her life to collecting plastic bottles and bags as well as joining rallies to support environmental conservation. Pod, depressed by Jin's indifference to him, waits for Jin at her doorstep every day.

This is a boy-meets-girl story, but it contains some of the most bizarre and funny scenes ever in a romantic comedy: a dead grandmother - reincarnated in the form of a gecko - persuading her lovelorn grandson not to hang himself; a heavy downpour of motorcycle helmets from the sky; city people with a wagging tail; and a beautiful stack of plastic that sparkles like a snowy mountain in the sunlight.