Uncle Boonmee Who Can Remember His Past Lives (2010)

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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Remember His Past Lives (2010) -- Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Set at a slow but relaxing pace (many scenes occur in a dark green dusk), Apichatpong's Cannes-winning film is full of magical and mundane happenings. In fact, it is the inter-mixture of the ordinary and the supernatural, seemingly unsurprising to characters in this NE Thailand setting, that is most striking and gives the film its surreal and playful quality. Ostensibly the plot focuses on Uncle Boonmee's slow death from kidney failure but not everything fits easily into a linear narrative. If you enter prepared, you may see wonders.