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It is said that the hospital is built on a cemetery of ancient kings, still engaged in fighting a war on another plane, sapping the current-day soldiers of their energy. Jen ( Jenjira Pongpas, who has appeared in multiple Weerasethakul films) volunteers in the hospital.
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 Jen, as she watches over Itt, a handsome soldier with no family visitors.
Cemetery of Splendour rests on Apichatpong’s familiar metaphor of sickness and the drive to heal it, from treatments for Jen’s damaged leg to the narcoleptic soldiers, echoed in images of a dying tree orchid and rather half-hearted mass aerobics.
Cemetery of Splendour. Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul is back with the story of a housewife who nurses a soldier. Monday 14 September 2015. Written by David Ehrlich.
- June 16, 2016
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Cemetery of Splendor (2015) expands Apichatpong’s interest in the spiritual world, deployed as a kind of literal metaphor. In the film, a group of soldiers has been afflicted with sleeping sickness and they have been remanded to a village hospital ward.…
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Sep 21, 2015 · When Jen comes across two beautiful young women hawking clothes, they casually reveal themselves to be centuries-old dead Laotian goddesses. They mention in passing that an ancient cemetery lies beneath the hospital, with the kings and warriors buried there draining the sleeping soldiers of their energy so they can keep fighting their age-old wars.
