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Shown: January 7, 2019 at 6pm

Director : Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Country : Thailand

Release Date : 2010

Duration : 113 mins

Language : Thai & Isan

Subtitles : Yes

WINNER : PALME D’OR AT 2010 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

Uncle Boonmee (Who Can Recall His Past Lives) centres on the last days in the life of its title character. Together with his loved ones – including the spirit of his dead wife and his lost son who has returned as a forest spirit – Boonmee explores his previous lives as he contemplates the reasons for his illness, on a rural northern Thailand farm. Languorous and deeply enigmatic, Uncle Boonmee represents an original take on the ghosts that haunt us.

As is to be expected, Weerasethakul frequently abandons the story for trancelike contemplations of nature, but never before in his work has the device felt more purposeful.”  (Ben Sachs – Chicago Reader)


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