Three by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
A conjurer of works as spellbinding as they are somnolent, his oeuvre one without pretense or parallel, Weerasethakul is undoubtedly one of the greatest filmmakers to have emerged in the twenty-first century. This series brings together three of the independent Thai auteur’s most feted films: in the Palme d’Or-anointed "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives", "Cemetery of Splendour", and "Tropical Malady", earthly matters and desires commingle tantalizingly with mystical realms.
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 113 mins | 2010
Winner of the 2010 Palme d’Or at Cannes, Apichatpong’s film follows its fatally ill title character (Thanapat Saisaymar) on a final pilgrimage of sorts, traveling the countryside of Thailand’s rural northeast where he encounters long-lost lo... -
Cemetery of Splendour
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 122 mins | 2015
Weaving together Thailand’s rich fundament of supernatural mythology and its often troubled national history, Apichatpong crafts a bewitching and seductive cinematic idyll, in which comatose soldiers suffering from a mysterious sleeping sick... -
Tropical Malady
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 114 mins | 2004
Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes, this is the movie that gained Apichatpong’s distinctive, dreamy vision a new level of recognition on the international stage. A bifurcated narrative, with no clear connection between the film’s two halves,...
