Cemetery of Splendor

“Few filmmakers this side of David Lynch are as adept as Apichatpong Weerasethakul when it comes to appropriating the language of dreams.”—Variety

Another gentle, mysterious new film by Wexner Center favorite and Artist Residency Award recipient Apichatpong Weerasethakul is always a cause for celebration. Here he returns to his home in Thailand’s troubled northeastern region to explore the world of his memories. Using a surprisingly linear narrative, this most slippery of filmmakers follows a young medium and a middle-aged hospital volunteer as they investigate a case of mass sleeping sickness that may have supernatural roots. Cemetery of Splendor creates an inimitably sublime and subtly subversive tone that fuses the past and the present, the spiritual and the mundane, and dreams and reality. (122 mins., DCP)