Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Apichatpong Weerasethakul · 2010
114min · DCP
  • Wednesday, Feb 19, 2025, 7:00pm

Screening location: Northwest Film Forum – 1515 12th Ave, Seattle

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UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES is a unique tale of a man embracing life’s greatest mystery. Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave – the birthplace of his first life…

In Thai with English subtitles.

“This is a visionary film in the director’s characteristic style: mysterious, dreamlike, gentle, quiet, magical.” Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

“A film so entrancing, original and hypnotic that the moment it finishes the immediate impulse is to watch it again.” Jason Wood, Little White Lies

“Magical, baffling, mirthful, sublime — it’s everything it’s cracked up to be.” Chuck Stephens, Film Comment