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Which parts were filmed in Burma?


And how did they manage to film there?

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Yes, There is some brief info about this in a (42 minute) video on youtube shot before and after a screening of:film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4czVWRXYSM

beginning at 23:15, and also in the movie's presskit, which is online at:

http://www.metropolefilms.com/data/ftp/Lady/The%20Lady%20FINAL%20PRESS%20KIT%20Metro_EN.pdf

Apparently they came back with 17 hours(!) of footage, all shot surreptitiously with a hidden camera. According to the presskit about "thirty or so shots" in the movie came from that footage.

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Thanks, mate!

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Looks more like Thailand than Burma. The streets are too wide.

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Definitely Thailand I saw some Thai writing in one scene
Apart from some footage smuggled out of Burma (the message at the end of the film says people who filmed it were in prison)

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in a radio interview Michelle Yeoh herself said that some scenes were filmed in Thailand...I also read on wikipedia that director Luc Besson also filmed some scenes in Burma.

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