Midnight My Love

Midnight My Love
The Thai movie poster.
Directed by	Kongdej Jaturanrasamee
Produced by	Prachya Pinkaew Siwaporn Pongsuwan Sukanya Vongsthapat
Written by	Kongdej Jaturanrasamee
Starring	Petchtai Wongkamlao Woranut Wongsawan
Music by	Chaibundit Peuchponsub
Cinematography	Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
Edited by	Lee Chatametikool
Distributed by	Sahamongkol Film International
Release date	May 12, 2005 (2005-05-12)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Thailand
Language	Thai

Prachya Pinkaew

Midnight My Love (Thai: เฉิ่ม or Cherm, literally "old-fashioned person") is a 2005 Thai romantic drama film written and directed by Kongdej Jaturanrasamee and starring Petchtai Wongkamlao and Woranut Wongsawan.

The film features a change of pace for comic actor Petchtai, who offers a sombre, dramatic portrayal of a taxicab driver who develops a relationship with a young woman (Woranut, in her debut feature film role) who is working in a massage parlor.

The film has dream sequences that place the characters in scenes that might have come from a classic Thai melodrama film of the 1960s or 70s, with a dubbed soundtrack, which was a common method of filmmaking in the era.

Sombat is a taxicab driver in Bangkok. A loner, only seeks companionship through the melodramatic soap operas and old-time Thai pop ballads on his favorite AM radio station. He's picky about the fares he takes, and those passengers he does pick up invariably complain about the "Golden Oldies" radio show he's listening to. For those few co-workers that actually notice him, he's a source of amusement, a luddite who doesn't even own a mobile phone.

He follows a routine that has him driving the cab by night and sleeping by day in his small apartment. He eats at the same food stall and orders the same meal each day. Sometimes he'll visit a ballroom where big band music is played and there is dancing, but he always sits by himself and sips a Coke. He also writes letters to his radio station, hoping one night he'll hear his letter read on air.