Gandules'19
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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In the poetics of Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the boundaries between the real and the supernatural become permeable, because, as both the Buddhist and the quantum physicist know, everything is interconnected, and every individual identity is part of a whole.
A cycle curated by film critic Jordi Costa in the framework of the exhibition Quantum.
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2010 Cannes Festival, this film tells a story of death and life, of sleep and waking, that mixes past, present and future. Uncle Boonmee has kidney disease and decides to send his last days on a farm in the country with his relatives. There, he is visited by the ghost of his dead wife and their disappeared son, who help him in this last phase. To do this, Boonmee and his loved ones go through the jungle to a cave where his first birth and first life took place. After this return to the womb, Boonmee relives all of his past lives.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2010 / Thailand / 35 mm / 113 min / Original version, Spanish subtitles
This activity is part of Quantum, Gandules'19, Gandules
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