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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
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.

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