A moving, gently reassuring tale that softens the boundaries between humanity and nature, life and the afterlife.
95
MovielineStephanie Zacharek
MovielineStephanie Zacharek
If anything, Joe's sense of dream logic is more naturalistic than Lynch's, more grounded in the knowable world - as much, that is, as we can know about nature - and the luminous Uncle Boonmee is no exception.
91
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Spirit, animal, and human worlds coexist in dreamy harmony in this remarkable drama.
90
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
A work of unostentatious beauty and uncloying sweetness, at once sophisticated and artless, mysterious and matter-of-fact, cosmic and humble, it asks only a measure of Boonmeevian acceptance: The movie doesn't mean anything-it simply is.