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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives past lives as he contemplates the reasons for his illness. "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" is the final installment in a multi-platform art project "Primitive". The project deals with the Isan region in Thailand's northeast, and in particular the village of Nabua in Nakhon Phanom, near the Laos border. Previous installments include a seven-part video installation and the two short films "A Letter to Uncle Boonmee" and "Phantoms of Nabua", both of which premiered in 2009. The project deals with themes of memories, transformation and extinction, and touches on a violent 1965 crackdown on communist sympathisers in
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (; ) is a 2010 Thai art drama film written, produced, and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The film, which explores the theme of reincarnation, won the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first Thai film to do so. The film centers on the last days in the life of its title character. Together with his loved ones – including the spirit of his dead wife and his lost son who has returned in a non-human form – Boonmee explores his