Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
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Foreign Title: Loong Boonmee raleuk chat
Date: January 01, 2010 to December 31, 2010
Dates Note: 2010
Country of Origin:
France
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Germany
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Netherlands
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Spain
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Thailand
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United Kingdom
Place of Origin: Thailand, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands
Languages:
Thai
Color: Color
Silent: No
Based On: the writings of Phra Sripariyattiweti
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Curator Notes
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema of NowDescription:
Continuing his miraculous invention of a dark pastoral, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Palme d’Or winner melds the last dying encounters of a farmer, Boonmee, with a gorgeously rendered landscape enlivened by the presence of ghostly apparitions. A veranda perched by an intruding forest becomes the astral stage for Boonmee’s transmigrational journey, accompanied by his dead wife, an ectoplasmic entity, and his long-lost son, now manifested as a “monkey ghost.” Weerasethakul’s humble genius is his beguiling ability to allow the primordial and the modern to coexist. This is not magical realism, but realistic magic. “A one-of-a-kind dream ghost story” (Los Angeles Times).
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