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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

2010

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

2010·Not Rated·ThailandThailandUnited KingdomUnited KingdomFranceFranceGermanyGermanySpainSpainNetherlandsNetherlands
Award tierGold
Metascore

Dying of kidney disease, a man spends his last, somber days with family, including the ghost of his wife and a forest spirit who used to be his son, on a rural northern Thailand farm.

Cast

Jenjira Pongpas·Thanapat Saisaymar·Sakda Kaewbuadee·Natthakarn Aphaiwonk

Producers

Joslyn Barnes·Charles de Meaux·Caroleen Feeney·Simon Field·Hans W. Geissendörfer

Languages

ThailandThaiFranceFrenchlao

Major Awards

3 wins · 3 nominations

Wins (3)

Festival Grand Prize

Cannes Film Festival (2010)

Palme d'Or

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Best Picture

Asian Film Awards (2011)

Best Film

Critics' Awards

Cahiers du Cinéma (2010)

Best Film

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Nominations (3)

Best Picture

London Critics Circle Film Awards (2011)

Foreign Language Film of the Year

Best Director

London Critics Circle Film Awards (2011)

Director of the Year

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Critics' Awards

Cahiers du Cinéma (2019)

Best Film

Apichatpong Weerasethakul