Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives | A Must Watch Art Film From Thailand | Review

[@MintVolcano]

What are your thoughts on art films like these?

[@TheMikenanners]

My favourites from him so far are probably Syndromes and a Century and Tropical Malady, though if I had watched this one first it would still definitely have made me want to seek out more. To me he’s like a Lynchian Tsai Ming-Liang if I was going to give a simplistic ‘elevator pitch’ for his style, but I can tell so much of what makes something like this special is uniquely Thai in origin. It’s truly immersive filmmaking and definitely worth everyone’s time who’s willing to engage with art cinema.

[@ydran5783]

I’ve just seen this movie and I liked it, I didn’t understand all of it but I knew I needed to know more

[@JahBeatSoundSystem]

Watched this and another apichatpong weerasethakul movie just after it was released. It's been a few year's and wanted to reflect on these movies I watched. Letting you know I liked it

[@nep86]

It was weird how no one was shocked, like Nature and city mix, real world and spirits mix too. But it was not in a way to shook You, just like life and death are intermix

[@edwardgrigoryan3982]

Great movie, I have seen a few by this director and hold them all in high regard. I really like this concept of explainability vs interpretability dichotomy you mention in this video. Deeply intriguing art films are those that are not subject to a singular explanation, but rather, many interpretations. If you like Boonme, I really, really think you would like the Chinese film Kaili Blues. Similar but different. Also, this one is a bit random, but would be super curious to know what you think of the Polish film Golem by Piotr Szulkin. Just an insanely impressive atmosphere built on such a low budget with that one. You can find it with subs on KZbin.

[@MintVolcano]

Those sound like my kinds of films 😉 Thanks for the recommendations!

[@BIllyBibbic]

Type of the film where just taking it as it goes, without a lot of thinking where it goes, would do you better, at least in my case. I couldnt really enter Joes cinematography, I tried several works. Appreciate him and his contemplative style but will need more time to like him beyond that. Great review!

[@thiagos1867]

Great video! This was my first Apichatpong film, and sometimes it was hard to connect with the story, but sometimes was a really beautiful and fascinating experience. It remembered me the instrospective narrative style from Stalker or the slow pace from Bela Tarr films. Anyway, good to hear your thoughs about the movie

[@MintVolcano]

I have also only seen this film and definitely want to watch more of his work.

[@saifzouabi]

i've always been wandering what does the baffalo symbolize in the film