If you loved Yeelen, try Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

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Yeelen

1987 · dir. Souleymane Cissé

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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

2010 · dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul

What they share

Theysit in Drama / Fantasy territory. If that's the register that drew you to Yeelen, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is

_Stalker_ if it were set in the jungles of Thailand. Ailing Boonmee awaits death, visited by his dead wife's ghost and a son reborn as a hairy beast. The dying man seeks the source of his past existences in a bat-filled cave. A singular work of Southeast Asian magical realism.

If you loved Yeelen, try Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

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