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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives: Movie Review

9:33 PM PDT 10/14/2010 by Maggie Lee

"Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" playfully invokes both the lifestyle and animistic beliefs of Thailand's Northeast country folk and the primitive magic of early Thai cinema.

CANNES -- Like most of his feature films, Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is set in Isan province, where he grew up. It playfully invokes both the lifestyle and animistic beliefs of the Northeast country folk, and the primitive magic of early Thai cinema, relating both of these to his musings on reincarnation.

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