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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
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Product Description
Product Description
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave - the birthplace of his first life.
Review
One of the best films of the year. Huanting... Hypnotic... It's a beauty! --Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Magazine
Mysterious and lovely --Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
A one-of-a-kind dream ghost story! --Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
About the Director
Apichatpong Weerasethakul was born in Bangkok (1970) and grew up in Khon Kaen, north-eastern Thailand. He graduated from Khon Kaen University and holds a Bachelors degree in Architecture, then a Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking from The Art Institute of Chicago. He started making films and video shorts in 1994 and completed his first feature in 2000. He has also mounted exhibitions and installations in many countries since 1998. Often non-linear, his works link with memory, invoked in subtle ways personal politics and social issues. Working independently of the Thai commercial film industry, he devotes himself to promoting experimental and independent filmmaking through his company Kick the Machine Films, founded in 1999. Kick the Machine has produced all his feature films. In 2008, he embarked on the Primitive project, a multi-platform work of which Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives is part. In 2009, he and his work were the subject of a monograph published by the Austrian Film Museum.
His art projects and feature films have won him widespread recognition and numerous festival prizes, including two prizes from the Cannes Film Festival. Blissfully Yours won the Un Certain Regard Prize in 2002 and Tropical Malady won the Official Competition Jury Prize in 2004. His acclaimed 2006 feature, Syndromes and a Century, was the first Thai film selected for competition at the Venice Film Festival and was acclaimed in a number of international polls as one of the best films of the last decade.
He lives and works in Chiangmai, Thailand. He is currently preparing his next project on the filmmaker and celebrated author Donald Richie.
Product details
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 5.92 ounces
- Item model number : 17616259
- Director : Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, AC-3, Blu-ray, Subtitled, NTSC, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 53 minutes
- Release date : July 26, 2011
- Actors : Thanapat Saisaymar, Janjira Pongpas, Sakda Kaewbuadee, Natthakarn Aphaiwonk
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Strand Home Video
- ASIN : B004VTLO9M
- Number of discs : 1
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Now that I've gotten that joke out of my system, in all seriousness, it's a beautiful, strange film intentionally shot in six different visual styles. It's both baffling and deeply moving, with moments of magical realism and thoughtfully composed, authentic daily life. There's very little artifice in this film.
That being said, it's an arthouse film that isn't for casual viewers, who will likely find it confusing and overly slow-paced.
Bottom line.
It's a great movie for the film advocate, but I understand the issues a casual viewer would have with it.
- An accurate depiction of rural Thailand,
- Beautiful cinematography, and
- Weird, interesting ideas.
It's more than worth it.
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Having seen this soon after Werner Herzog's stunning film about the Chauvet cave paintings, I was reminded of the anthropologist's key distinctions between Paleolithic and modern man - their senses of fluidity between human and animal beings, and of permeability between the living and the spirit world. It's made quite clear by this film that these distinctions only hold in the contemporary West. The director conjures the world of his own Thai childhood (as well as of the monk whose book inspired the film), where the spirits of the dead are all around, and where human and beast co-exist to the point of mergence.
For all this strangeness, though, the humanity of the film is what gives it power. It's beautifully acted by a cast of naturals, and the scene between the dying Boonmee and the ghost of his wife is as resonantly tender as anything I have seen in cinema.
The interview with Weerasethakul on this DVD is well worth watching after you have seen the feature. It sheds fascinating light on his motivations and decisions without dispelling the film's entrancing oddness.