Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

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“A work of unostentatious beauty and uncloying sweetness, at once sophisticated and artless, mysterious and matter-of-fact, cosmic and humble.” (Village Voice)

The talk of the Cannes Festival—where it won the top prize—Uncle Boonmee is the contemplative tale of a dying man who is visited by the spirits of his wife, son, and other creatures from the twilight world. The interweaving of the mundane and the otherworldly, the fluid sense of time, and the lush Thai setting add up to a unique cinematic experience. “It has something sublime and visionary about it, with a spiritual quality I can't remember seeing in any film recently,” says The Guardian (UK).

Q&A: director Apichatpong Weerasethakul with World Cinema Foundation Executive Director Kent Jones.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul. 2010. 114 m. Spain/Germany/Netherlands/UK/Thailand, Thai. Strand Releasing.

New York Times review