Two by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Two 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 two of the independent Thai auteur’s most feted films: in the Palme d’Or-anointed "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" and "Cemetery of Splendour", earthly matters and desires commingle tantalizingly with mystical realms.

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Two by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • 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...