Thursday, November 18, 2010

Uncle Boonmee

Thailand

Very unusual film centered around a man dying of kidney failure, his interactions with family members and various ghosts from his past. Slow paced and abstract. Some stunning locations/imagery. Featured the unusual sight of a woman raped by a fish...all done discreetly.

I had the strong sense that there was folkloric resonance here for a Thai audience that completely missed me. The final scenes, after his funeral struck me as similar to Bunuel in Simon of the Desert.

Worth seeing but this would have a very limited audience in the West.

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