If you’re looking for an escape, there’s no better film than Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. This is less a film, more an immersive visual essay, complete with poetic interludes, nocturnal playfulness and a couple of laughs along the way. It made me want to go into a forest (when lockdown is over, of course), and try to find the mystical creatures and ways of engaging with our natural world that we’ve forgotten.
I always come out of this film a much happier person than when I went in, and am certainly a better person for watching it. It also made me look at catfish in a very different way, and I can’t say better for a film than that.
Johnathon Parkins
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