Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Weerasethakul's magical realist meditation follows a dying man visited by the ghosts of his past lives. Through reincarnation, memory, spirits, and the jungle, it explores Buddhist concepts of cycle and rebirth. The film is a trance-like meditation on existence and time.
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