If you’re hoping to see a new film from Apichatpong Weerasethakul in 2009, you’ll have to do without…but for folks living in and passing through Munich later this month and in Liverpool in September might get a preview of the basis for his next project.
Screen Daily reports that the Thai filmmaker is preparing the tale about a man who is dying and whose long-lost son re-appears as a “monkey ghost”. Weerasethakul will start lensing Uncle Boonmee: A Man Who Can Recall His Past Lives sometime in October when precipitation levels are at a high. The Match Factory who handle several Cannes titles each year will rep the title.
The pic will be produced by Illuminations Films, while his multi-platform project “Primitive”, shows the origins of Uncle Boonmee — the research trip the filmmaker took to Nabua, a village in north-east Thailand. While there, Weerasethakul met farmers who had lived through periods of intense oppression and violence when the Thai Government tried to suppress the spread of communism.
The installation focuses on the teenagers of Nabua and their relationship with their past.
