Projection and discussion
Cemetery of Splendour
10 Oct 2024
The event is over
Soldiers suffering from a mysterious sleeping sickness are transferred to a field hospital, set up in an abandoned school. Jenjira volunteers to care for Itt, a handsome soldier who nobody visits.
She strikes up a friendship with Keng, a young medium who uses her powers to communicate with the sleeping men. Maybe there is a connection between the enigmatic syndrome afflicting the soldiers and the former royal cemetery the school was built over?
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Cemetery of Splendour, 2015, 122 min, DCP, colour, original version with French subtitles
Thailand / United Kingdom / France / Germany / Malaysia,
With Banlop Lomnoi, Jenjira Pongpas, Jarinpattra Rueangram Selected for Un Certain Regard, 2015 Cannes Film Festival
"Distilling its discreetly fantastical colouring into an old school converted into a clinic, where soldiers lie in a mysterious state of narcolepsy, Cemetery of Splendour reflects, better than any other, a desire to represent the world as a millefeuille of shifting realities, visible and invisible, a great continuum in which souls circulate between past, present and future, dream, fantasy and reality, animal and human..." Isabelle Regnier, Le Monde, 2 September 2015.
Preceded by
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Fireworks (Archive), 2014, 6 min 40, HD Digital, colour, silent
First film in the "Fireworks" series. At night, in the park where Cemetery of Splendour was partially filmed, actors blend in with animal statues illuminated by flashes of fireworks. Together, they commemorate the destruction and liberation of the land.
Followed by a discussion with Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Grégory Delaplace and Mathieu Potte-Bonneville.
Next screening 26 October
When
7pm - 9:40pm
Where
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Cemetery of Splendour, 2015
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