Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is the final installment in a multi-platform art project called Primitive. The project deals with the region Isan in Thailand's northeast, and in particular the village Nabua in Nakhon Phanom, just by the border to Laos. Previous installments include a seven-part video installation and the two short films A Letter to Uncle Boonmee and Phantoms of Nabua, all of which premiered in 2009. The project deals with themes of memories, transformation and extinction, and touches on a violent 1965 crack down on communist sympathisers in Nabua by the Thai army. Regarding the feature film's place within the overarching project, Apichatpong has said that it "echoes other works in the 'Primitive' installation, which is about this land in Isan with a brutal history. But I'm not making a political film - it's more like a personal diary."[3] According to Apichatpong, the film is primarily about "objects and people that transform or hybridise". A central theme is the transformation and possible extinction of cinema itself. The film consists of six reels each shot in a different cinematic style. The styles include, by the words of the director, "old cinema with stiff acting and classical staging", "documentary style", "costume drama" and "my kind of film when you see long takes of animals and people driving". Apichatpong further explained in an interview with Bangkok Post: "When you make a film about recollection and death, you realise that cinema is also facing death. Uncle Boonmee is one of the last pictures shot on film - now everybody shoots digital. It's my own little lamentation" Apichatpong Weerasethakul says that a man named Boonmee approached Phra Sripariyattiweti, the abbot of a Buddhist temple in his home town, claiming he could clearly remember his own previous lives while meditating. The abbot was so impressed with Boonmee's ability that he published a book called A Man Who Can Recall His Past Lives in 1983. By the time Apichatpong read the book, Boonmee had died. The original idea was to adapt the book into a biographical film about Boonmee. However, that was soon abandoned to make room for a more personal film, while still using the book's structure and content as inspiration. The stories and production designs were inspired by old television shows and Thai comic books, which often used simple plots and were filled with supernatural elements. The film was an international co-production between Apichatpong's company Kick the Machine, Britain's Illuminations Films, France's Anna Sanders Films, Germany's The Match Factory and Geissendrfer Film- und Fernsehproduktion and Spain's Eddie Saeta.It received 3.5 million Baht in support from the Royal Thai Ministry of Culture. Filming took place between October 2009 and February 2010, as the weather conditions allowed, both in Bangkok and the northeast of Thailand, Isan.16 mm film was used for budget reasons and preferred over digital video to give the film a look similar to the classic Thai cinema of the past. I was old enough to catch the television shows that used to be shot on 16 mm film. They were done in studio with strong, direct lighting. The lines were whispered to the actors, who mechanically repeated them. The monsters were always in the dark to hide the cheaply made costumes. Their eyes were red lights so that the audience could spot them." Winning the prestigious Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival has proved to be a life changing moment for Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul †affectionately known as â€Thai Joe††whose films have never received a release in Australia outside of film festivals. But with Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, audiences will now get the chance to experience the uniquely mystical films that have enraptured the world’s film festival crowd. Watch Online : Uncle Boonmee MOVIE 2011 Dowanload Online : Uncle Boonmee MOVIE 2011
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