Subscribe today using voucher code SUMMER22 for an extended free trial

This film is currently unavailable

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 12 rating

Apichatpong's Cannes prizewinner, about an ailing man revisiting his past, is a measured, lyrical evocation of mysterious beauty and quiet humanity

Fantasy 2010 109 mins

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Overview

The Cannes Palme d'Or-winner by Thailand's Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a typically sensuous, lyrical portrait of an ailing elderly farmer who while preparing to die is visited by his long-estranged son and by his late wife's ghost... Human and animal, living and dead, reality and cinema come together in a poetic, imaginative realm that knows no borders. Eccentric, personal, magical filmmaking