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)