Country: Thailand
Directed by Apitchatpong Weerasethakul
As I often feel with Apitchapong's films, 'Bunmee' is a movie that rather you experience it than you just watch it. This by it self is enormous, enough to justify the awards that the film got. Apitchatpong has this rare ability to create intense and captivative scenes and images, even if on the surface nothing really impressive is happening. 'Bunmee' is a film obviously about the supernatural, the past and the beauty of live, but at a second level deals also with things as Thai politics and the death of cinema as an art. As more you know about Thai political history, history of Thai cinema and Buddhism as more you can understand what you are watching. Once more impressed, still i can say though that here a chance for a masterpiece somehow got wasted: 'Bunmee' has a lot of weak sides as it cant keep its intensity and originallity all the way and somewhere in the middles you feel that something is missing
Watch the full movie here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xytsxk_uncle-boonmee-who-can-recall-his-past-lives-2010-pt-1_creation
