A prologue in which a cow gets released from his bonds and escapes into the jungle until, finally, someone finds it and pushes it back into the fold. An epilogue in which a Buddhist monk for a few hours leaving not only the habits, but even his own body, to enjoy moments of life in freedom. And between them, ... the last days of Uncle Boonmee , a victim of acute renal failure, which is being visited by ghosts of the past and their journey to the cave where he was born and where he wants to end his days.
All this and much more, is what holds Uncle Boonmee remember their past lives , recent winner of the Palme in the last contest of the Festival de Cannes and last work for me until now unknown, Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul ; director who, from now on I will refer to the name of Joe , as he asked in an interview during that festival . Uncle
Boonmee remember their past lives (UB from now) is a film that can be uncomfortable to watch for western audiences and, of course, it is difficult to discuss.
On the one hand we find in it a central theme, that of Boonmee disease, more conventional narrative, which takes us from the arrival of the character Jen, sister of the patient, home of the deceased to the place where the patient eventually find death: the cave where he was born. A place full of mysticism and it is easy to recognize the reference to the womb.
Within this central plot and conventional, in which the Western eye can still recognize, particularly in the latter stages of the film, the director's nostalgic to a time and beliefs and traditions that are beginning to lose (or least that's what I see in the scenes of the Buddhist funeral ceremony Boonmee and subsequent epilogue), we find many evocations that reference pantheistic theories, Buddhist traditions and transmigration of souls that the viewer, in most cases, be addressed by being aware of how dangerous it is to find a correct interpretation for which he is ignorant of the traditions that hold history and culture of those regions.
At this point I would recommend to flee the fruitless search for any kind of interpretation and be carried away by the beauty and fascination that distill all these scenes that even appear unassailable pudiéndonos, never cease to convey emotions Does anyone can fail to be excited to this beautiful story unfinished which contains the film in which a princess who travels through the jungle, while talking to one of their porters, looking at the waters of a lake that will return the reflection of her face become another incredibly beautiful and just being penetrated by a fish emerged from the depths of the water even a story that we are unable to enshrine in the rest of the movie?
Perhaps the story of the princess is a dream of the character we've seen a few moments before lying in a hammock and looking at the mountains or maybe the fish is one of the past lives of Boonmee, who cares.
truth, and most importantly, is that we UB faced with a new way of storytelling.
In the same way that, throughout the story, they appear ghosts and other characters (the sister, the monk) who do not belong to where they are and who are living their real lives, the linear part of the story The more conventional narrative, it could be that was really out of place in the whole story thus representing the spectrum of a film that has been transmuted into a new kind of film language.
Nothing would please me more, if only to enjoy watching the reactionary film, with Carlos Boyero to the head, flee in terror of the rooms. To
Abstracts lovers say that Uncle Boonmee remember their past lives is a fascinating naturalist fable about death and a nostalgic look at the way cultural traditions that permeate our lives may be, paradoxically, very uncomfortable see how easy to enjoy.
I'm in search of Tropical Malady and Syndromes and A Century, this director's previous works, as well as on his short A Letter to Uncle Boonmee which was introduced in the past Sitges Festival and I guess initiation to face this film has taken us today.
All this and much more, is what holds Uncle Boonmee remember their past lives , recent winner of the Palme in the last contest of the Festival de Cannes and last work for me until now unknown, Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul ; director who, from now on I will refer to the name of Joe , as he asked in an interview during that festival . Uncle
Boonmee remember their past lives (UB from now) is a film that can be uncomfortable to watch for western audiences and, of course, it is difficult to discuss.
On the one hand we find in it a central theme, that of Boonmee disease, more conventional narrative, which takes us from the arrival of the character Jen, sister of the patient, home of the deceased to the place where the patient eventually find death: the cave where he was born. A place full of mysticism and it is easy to recognize the reference to the womb.
Within this central plot and conventional, in which the Western eye can still recognize, particularly in the latter stages of the film, the director's nostalgic to a time and beliefs and traditions that are beginning to lose (or least that's what I see in the scenes of the Buddhist funeral ceremony Boonmee and subsequent epilogue), we find many evocations that reference pantheistic theories, Buddhist traditions and transmigration of souls that the viewer, in most cases, be addressed by being aware of how dangerous it is to find a correct interpretation for which he is ignorant of the traditions that hold history and culture of those regions.
At this point I would recommend to flee the fruitless search for any kind of interpretation and be carried away by the beauty and fascination that distill all these scenes that even appear unassailable pudiéndonos, never cease to convey emotions Does anyone can fail to be excited to this beautiful story unfinished which contains the film in which a princess who travels through the jungle, while talking to one of their porters, looking at the waters of a lake that will return the reflection of her face become another incredibly beautiful and just being penetrated by a fish emerged from the depths of the water even a story that we are unable to enshrine in the rest of the movie?
Perhaps the story of the princess is a dream of the character we've seen a few moments before lying in a hammock and looking at the mountains or maybe the fish is one of the past lives of Boonmee, who cares.
truth, and most importantly, is that we UB faced with a new way of storytelling.
In the same way that, throughout the story, they appear ghosts and other characters (the sister, the monk) who do not belong to where they are and who are living their real lives, the linear part of the story The more conventional narrative, it could be that was really out of place in the whole story thus representing the spectrum of a film that has been transmuted into a new kind of film language.
Nothing would please me more, if only to enjoy watching the reactionary film, with Carlos Boyero to the head, flee in terror of the rooms. To
Abstracts lovers say that Uncle Boonmee remember their past lives is a fascinating naturalist fable about death and a nostalgic look at the way cultural traditions that permeate our lives may be, paradoxically, very uncomfortable see how easy to enjoy.
I'm in search of Tropical Malady and Syndromes and A Century, this director's previous works, as well as on his short A Letter to Uncle Boonmee which was introduced in the past Sitges Festival and I guess initiation to face this film has taken us today.
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