Synopsis
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave—the birthplace of his first life.
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Cast
- Thanapat SaisaymarBoonmee
- Jenjira PongpasJen
- Sakda KaewbuadeeTong
- Natthakarn AphaiwonkHuay
- Geerasak KulhongBoonsong
- Wallapa MongkolprasertPrincess
- Kanokporn TongaramRoong
- Samud KugasangJaai
- Sumit SuebseeSoldier
- Mathieu LyFarmer
Recommendations
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Time Out
What you see and hear always seems perfectly natural, even if you can't exactly say why. Who needs words when you have cinema? - 100
IndieWire
The magic of Uncle Boonmee is that it makes all viewers feel like the strange ones. - 100
The A.V. Club
A moving, gently reassuring tale that softens the boundaries between humanity and nature, life and the afterlife. - 95
Movieline
If anything, Joe's sense of dream logic is more naturalistic than Lynch's, more grounded in the knowable world - as much, that is, as we can know about nature - and the luminous Uncle Boonmee is no exception. - 91
Entertainment Weekly
Spirit, animal, and human worlds coexist in dreamy harmony in this remarkable drama. - 90
Village Voice
A work of unostentatious beauty and uncloying sweetness, at once sophisticated and artless, mysterious and matter-of-fact, cosmic and humble, it asks only a measure of Boonmeevian acceptance: The movie doesn't mean anything-it simply is. - 88
Rolling Stone
As Joe blurs the line between reality and the supernatural, his haunting and hypnotic film exerts a hold you don't want to break. It's a beauty. - 80
Boxoffice Magazine
A whimsical essay about the final days of a villager suffering from kidney failure it is undoubtedly one of the filmmaker's most accessible works.
