Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Thai rtgs Lung Bunmi Raluek Chat is a 2010 art drama Thai film written, produced and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The film, which explores the theme of reincarnation, won the Palme dOr at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first Thai film to do so.

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is the final installment in a multiplatform art project called Primitive. The project deals with the Isan region in Thailands northeast, and in particular the village of Nabua in Nakhon Phanom, near the border to Laos. Previous installments include a sevenpart video installation and the two short films A Letter to Uncle Boonmee and Phantoms of Nabua, both of which premiered in 2009. The project deals with themes of memories, transformation and extinction, and touches on a violent 1965 crackdown on communist sympathisers in Nabua by the Thai army. Regarding the feature films place within the overarching project, Apichatpong has said that it echoes other works in the Primitive installation, which is about this land in Isan with a brutal history. But Im not making a political film its more like a personal diary.According to Apichatpong, the film is primarily about objects and people that transform or hybridise. A central theme is the transformation and possible extinction of cinema itself. The film consists of six reels each shot in a different cinematic style. The styles include, by the words of the director, old cinema with stiff acting and classical staging, documentary style, costume drama and my kind of film when you see long takes of animals and people driving. Apichatpong further explained in an interview with Bangkok Post When you make a film about recollection and death, you realise that cinema is also facing death. Uncle Boonmee is one of the last pictures shot on film now everybody shoots digital. Its my own little lamentation. ........

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