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Cemetery of Splendour (Thai: รักที่ขอนแก่น, RTGS: Rak Ti Khon Kaen) is a 2015 Thai drama film written, produced, and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The plot revolves around a spreading epidemic of sleeping sickness where spirits appear to the stricken and hallucination becomes indistinguishable from reality.
Sep 2, 2015 · Cemetery of Splendor: Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. With Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop Lomnoi, Jarinpattra Rueangram, Petcharat Chaiburi. A group of soldiers in a small town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand are struck with a bizarre sleeping illness.
Lonely housewife Jenjira volunteers at a makeshift hospital for soldiers suffering from a mysterious bout of narcolepsy. When one of her bedridden charges ca...
The story of "Cemetery of Splendor" is mystifying, poetic, meditative, and impenetrable; we set ourselves up for frustration the moment we attempt to tease out the method behind the...
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"Cemetery of Splendour" takes place in a small rural hospital in Isan, Thailand. In the main ward, a group of ex-soldiers lie in cots, sleeping all day and all night. Volunteers minister to them.
Jan 21, 2016 · Soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are transferred to a temporary clinic in a former school. The memory-filled space becomes a revelatory world for housewife and volunteer Jenjira, as ...
May 18, 2015 · An incurable sleeping sickness yields an elusive yet expansive rumination on matters both political and intensely personal in “Cemetery of Splendor,” the latest gently hypnotic cinematic...