Bethany Community Services presents

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Thai with English Subtitles
Rated M
113 minutes

Boonmee, in need of kidney dialysis, has come to the remote forest to end his days: this is an important place from his childhood, and, he believes, the location for his former existences.

He has come to the forest with Laotian nurse Jaai, his sister-in-law Jen, and his young cousin Tong. At the dinner table, they are astonished when the ghost of Boonmee's wife, Huay appears to them. Huay has come to give modest advice on the manner in which we must surrender to death.

But this is not all: the spirit of Boonmee's son, Boonsong, who disappeared many years ago, presents himself reincarnated as a forest monkey spirit - a hairy, Wookieish creature.

Winner 2010 Palme d'Or Cannes, Uncle Boonmee offers pleasure and heartbreak in equal measure.

'..a gloriously worthy winner of the Palme d'Or...' - Peter Bradshaw, UK Guardian