Thai film surprise recipient of 2010 Palme d’Or

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives was the winner of this year’s Palme d’Or – the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival – beating the favourite Another Year by British director Mike Leigh.

Uncle Boonmee..., directed by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, is a supernatural drama which tells the story of a dying man visited by his deceased wife and missing son, who has taken the form of an ape.

Weerasethakul’s film had received mostly positive reviews, but was seen as an outsider to former Palme d’Or winner Leigh’s latest feature. Another Year, featuring long-time Leigh collaborators Jim Broadbent and Lesley Manville, was similarly lauded by Cannes’ critics, but lost out to the esteemed Thai director.

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