Thai with English subtitles

PG - Frightening Scenes.

Boonmee, a widowed land owner, struggles with failing kidneys and loneliness. Retreating to his farm with his closest family and supporters, Boonmee prepares for his final phase and together the family recollects lazy memories. Strangely, forest ghosts and creatures transformed from Boonmee’s past begin to gather at the home for a nighttime mix of inexplicable myths and animalistic fable.

This year’s Palm D’Ors winner at Cannes has already been touted as the most experimental and critically deserving film to screen on the French Riviera in some time. Having transitioned from hisses at Cannes in 2004 to standing ovations in 2010, the world finally seems ready to appreciate the distinct and subtle cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES is proof that this filmmaker is a one-of-a-kind master, and those willing to succumb to this film will be forever intrigued by the ease with which it bleeds between beautiful naturalism and puzzling fantasy.

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