Cemetery of splendour is a film directed by apichatpong weerasethakul with jenjira pongpas, banlop lomnoi, jarinpattra rueangram, petcharat chaiburi, year. Its a new masterwork from apichatpong weerasethakul, thailands most internationally acclaimed director, who won the cannes film festivals top honor in 2010 for uncle boonmee who can recall his past lives. Cemetery of splendour institute of contemporary arts. Cemetery of splendour explores our sleeping and waking. As with most of weerasethakuls films, the visual elements are both distinctive and stunning. Cemetery of splendor official trailer 1 2016 apichatpong weerasethakul movie hd. The memoryfilled space becomes a revelatory world for housewife and volunteer jenjira, as she watches over itt, a handsome soldier with no family visitors.
Cemetery of splendour an interview with apichatpong weerasethakul october 22, 2015 by jeremy elphick interviews despite filming his works to date almost exclusively in thailand, apichatpong weerasethakul has become one of the most recognisable, influential and groundbreaking figures in cinema today. Probably the closest apichatpong weerasethakul will ever come to a stateofthenation report on thailand, cemetery of splendour starts in what feels like a realist mode its reality centres on an apparently incurable sleeping sickness and escalates at the midpoint into a kind of phantasmagoria, signalled by cyclical changes in the colour of lights. In cemetery of splendour, a nod to dream logic by glenn kenny, the new york times. When it was announced that cemetery of splendour, the latest film from palme dor winner apichatpong weerasethakul, was to play in cannes as part of. Apichatpong weerasethakul metaphors selected soundworks from the cinema of apichatpong weerasethakul, released 28 february 2017 1. But cemetery of splendor is also true to a fourth element of every previous weerasethakul work. Cemetery of splendour 2015 san diego asian film festival. Thai master apichatpong weerasethakuls great cemetery of splendour dances between memories and waking states, as if the narrative itself was perpetually moving in. Selected soundworks from the cinema of apichatpong weerasethakul limited edition box set edition of 200. To watch an apichatpong werasethakul film is to be lulled into a dream. The plot revolves around a spreading epidemic of sleeping sickness where spirits appear to the stricken and hallucination becomes indistinguishable from reality.
Cemetery of splendour apichatpong weerasethakul, uk. I need to make a general observation about apichatpong weerasethakul first before i go into detail about his new and wonderful film cemetery of splendour 2015, his cannes entry five years after he won the palme dor with uncle boonmee who can recall his past lives. Soldiers struck by a mysterious sleeping epidemic lie comatose in a temporary clinic. Thats what cemetery of splendour, locally known as love in khon kaen, projected. His latest film, cemetery of splendour, which premiered at cannes this week, immerses you in a surreal, and yet real, world on the line of wakefulness and sleep. Its classic film topic is dreams and their relation or lack thereof to waking life. The serenity of madness is a traveling exhibition curated by gridthiya gaweewong and produced by independent curators international ici, new york. Titled cemetery of kings, the project was an official entry at the asia film financing forum at filmart, seeking investment from asian sales banners. Back in thailand, he founded his production company, kick the machine, and made his first feature film, mysterious object at noon, a conceptual documentary. Talking to apichatpong weerasethakul about cemetery of splendour the thai director follows up his palme dor winner uncle boonmee who can recall his past lives with the best film in cannes 2015. Apichatpong s featurelength debut, dokfa nai meuman mysterious object at noon is a documentary and was conceptually based upon the exquisite corpse game invented by surrealists. The film tells of a lonesome middleage housewife who tends a soldier with sleeping sickness and falls into a hallucination that triggers strange dreams. Apichatpong weerasethakuls cemetery of splendour best.
While the followup to the feverish jungle trip and palm dor winner, uncle boonmee who can recall his past lives, lacks that visual surrealism we. Cemetery of splendor, weerasethakuls 2015 effort, is no exception. The exhibition and tour are made possible, in part, with the generous support from maiiam contemporary art museum, chiang mai, the ici board of trustees and icis international forum. The film is a search for the old spirits i knew as a child. A troop of soldiers suffering from a strange sleeping sickness arrive in a small thai town. Thai master apichatpong weerasethakul s great cemetery of splendour dances between memories and waking states, as if the narrative itself was perpetually moving in and out of a dream. With jenjira pongpas, banlop lomnoi, jarinpattra rueangram, petcharat chaiburi. Where to begin with apichatpong weerasethakul by john berra, bfi. A group of soldiers in a small town on the mekong river in northern thailand are struck with a bizarre sleeping illness. She is particularly attached to itt, whom no one ever comes. Jenjira, a middleaged woman, offers to take care of them. Apichatpong weerasethakuls cemetery of splendour is a fantastical and meandering exploration of the blurred boundaries between dreams and.
Thai master of slow cinema delivers his most mature and private film although at a first glance cemetery of splendour seems like a detour for the master of casual mysticism apichatpong weerasethakul, this impression promptly proves incorrect. Acrophobia syndromes and a century apichatpong weerasethakul is recognised as one of the most original voices in contemporary cinema today. Soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are transferred to a temporary clinic in a former school. Films on vod selected by apichatpong weerasethakul lacinetek. Download cemetery of splendour 2015 download link 1. Apichatpong s cemetery cemetery of splendour is set in khon kaen, your home town. A school is turned into a makeshift hospital after soldiers have suddenly started sleeping, and this is where the mainstay of apichatpongs films, jenjira pongpas, shows up as a disabled character who is a volunteer to help them. Apichatpong weerasethakul, thailandukgermany 2015, 121 mins related.
Cemetery of splendour an interview with apichatpong. Thai director apichatpong weerasethakuls cemetery of splendour has won the best film award at the asia pacific screen awards in australia. Cemetery of splendour weerasethakul, 2015 the lonely. A small, humble film, in fact the most constricted of his full features, cemetery of splendour rather than working the surface of story, the surface of space, and the surface of drama and reality, plumbs the subterranean. The films charged setting is emblematic of its approach. Past lives, shared histories and a fluid sense of personal and national identity are the familiar concerns addressed by apichatpong weerasethakul in cemetery of splendour rak ti khon kaen, his. Dawn of boonmee uncle boonmee who can recall his past lives 4.
According to apichatpongs kick the machine website, cemetery of splendour. Its magic realism by way of thai socialism, or maybe the other way around. Apichatpong is very often regarded as one main player in the field of slow cinema. Cemetery of splendour, set in what looks like a primal realm. Apichatpong weerasethakul will return to the cannes film festival with his latest project, cemetery of splendour, which was among the official selections added in a special announcement by the fest. Cemetery of splendour apichatpong weerasethakul 2015.
Cemetery of splendour weerasethakul, 2015 by tomas trussow. Apichatpong weerasethakul does it again, with yet another meditative exercise in gentle dreamlike surrealism. Official selection, 2015 cannes film festival official selection, 2015 toronto international film festival. Apichatpong weerasethakuls latest feature, the mesmerizing and lingeringly paced cemetery of splendour, picks up where freud left off. Palme dorwinning director apichatpong weerasethakul uncle boonmee who can recall his past lives returns with the surreal and overtly political cemetery of splendour. In the final quarter of cemetery of splendour, the latest feature from the thai filmmaker apichatpong weerasethakul, theres an unusual exchange among the three main characters. Of course, openness is relativetheres still plenty of. After graduating in architecture at khon kaen university, apichatpong weerasethakul went on to study fine arts and filmmaking at the school of the art institute of chicago. Youve written of the film being a personal portrait of places that have latched onto you like parasites.
The memoryfilled space becomes a revelatory world for housewife and volunteer jenjira, as she watches over itt, a handsome. In apichatpong weerasethakuls luminous new film, nearly every critical voice in cannes got the country humour and elegant formalism, the noiseless collapse of the bulwarks that divide fact and fiction, dream and reality, memory and history, science fiction and superstition. A school is turned into a makeshift hospital after soldiers have suddenly started sleeping, and this is where the mainstay of apichatpong s films, jenjira pongpas, shows up as a disabled character who is a volunteer to help them. Cemetery of splendour 2015 directed by apichatpong. This episode was possible with the help of meno avilys, an ngo who invited apichatpong weerasethakul to vilnius. Thailand 2015 a film by apichatpong weerasethakul soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are transferred to a temporary clinic in a former school. I dont know how to parse this film in its entirety, as its different from anything else ive seen in terms of last years films. Apichatpong on his last thai film, cemetery of splendour. Magic, healing, romance and dreams are all part of a womans tender path to a deeper awareness of herself and the world around her when she volunteers to. Apichatpong weerasethakul, sompot chidgasornpongse. Cemetery of splendour 2015 behind the scenes duration. Dispensing with the homages to lowbudget thai film and television that gave a distinctive flavor to the magical realist goingson of uncle boonmee who can recall his past lives 10 and tropical malady 04, cemetery of splendor is apichatpong weerasethakuls most openly political film. Rak ti khon kaen is a 2015 thai drama film written, produced, and directed by apichatpong weerasethakul.
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