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Still from Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) -  silhouette in forest with red eyes
Still from Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) -  silhouette in forest with red eyes
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)

The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand | 2010 | M
Film

When

Wed 30 Jun 2021

7pm

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul's audacious film centres on the last few days of the titular character as he is joined by those he has loved and lost, and contemplates his karmically charged past lives.

No one else is making films this exciting and challenging

Steve Erickson

Moving fluidly between the living and the dead, reality and dream, this uncanny, serene and truly borderless work is also the final instalment in Weerasethakul's 'Primitive' art project exploring the Isan region in northeast Thailand. One of the key films of the 2010s.

Winner of the 2010 Cannes Palme d’Or

Presented with the support of Cineteca di Bologna

Format: Colour, 35mm
Language: Thai with English subtitles
Source: Match Factory
Runtime: 114 mins

Event duration

114 mins

Rating

M

Where

Cinema 1, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square

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