Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

2010. 133 m. Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Strand Releasing. Thailand/UK/France/Germany/Spain/Netherlands. Thai/French/Lao with subtitles. Rated NR.

Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival

The breakthrough film from Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul (a former JBFC Artist-in-Residence, and one of the boldest, most singular voices in contemporary world cinema), Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is a transcendent, dreamlike feat of magical realism that centers on a dying man as he contemplates and, eventually, comes face to face with the ghosts of his past.

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"Encountered in an appropriately exploratory frame of mind, it can produce something close to bliss.:
A.O. Scott, The New York Times

"What is clear is that this is a director with a great sense of the magical and the mystical residing in the everyday."
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

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Q&A with JBFC Artist-in-Residence Chantel Clark

Thursday, May. 26 2022, 7:00

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Chantel Clark is a South African director and screenwriter working between Cape Town and New York. An MFA graduate of the Film Program at Columbia University, her short film, Our Albertinia, was awarded a 2018 National Board of Review Student Grant, as well as the inaugural Columbia University/Big Sky Edit Visionary Award and screened at over 25 international film festivals. She is also the recipient of a Katharina Otto-Bernstein Thesis Film Fund Grant and was selected for inclusion in the ASCAP Foundation 2018 Film Scoring program in collaboration with Columbia University. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Film and Media Production and her Bachelor of Arts Honours in Television Drama from the University of Cape Town. Chantel is also an ambassador for Girls in Film South Africa.

She is currently developing two feature films, Wit Gesigte (Pale Faces), which was selected for the Sundance Institute’s January 2019 Screenwriters Lab, IFP's 41st IFP Week Project Forum, and was made a SFFILM Spring 2019 Rainin Grant Finalist, and A Place Called Paradise, both set in South Africa.

Experimenting with time and collective memory, Chantel’s films exist at the intersection of the supernatural and the speculative. Framing fiction through historical research, her narratives play out parallel to significant turning points in South African History.

This film is part of the The New Classics series.