Cemetery of Splendour is a film in which enjoyment levels increase as the plot progresses and we immerse ourselves in this particular universe. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2023

What a lovely journey though - a series of small escalating emotional catharses that moves through like clouds

| Jul 6, 2021

There's no other filmography more essential than Weerasethakul's. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 31, 2021

'Life is but a waking dream' is much more pronounced in this film than any other weerasethakul films. But he also acknowledges a certain melancholy in resisting to let go earthly desires.

| Feb 14, 2021

[T]he best thing I can say about it is that it renewed my sense of the life force both within and surrounding me, motivating me from a within that's outside of me, as it were.

| Jun 30, 2020

Cemetery at once feels like a confident step forward and a pared-down return to origins. The film hits upon the range of Weerasethakul's familiar themes, but with a renewed and different force.

| Feb 1, 2020

There's a boundless imagination to the film, and through its hypnotic visuals (a sequence with a group of lights can easily function as its own brilliant installation piece) it's easy to get swept up by its beauty.

| May 31, 2019

An interesting, well-established world and its characters are frustratingly under-served by the placid direction and drab framing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 19, 2019

By far the most nakedly political film of Weerasethakul's career, it is a gentle, open-hearted story of human connection, and it is underlain at every moment by rage and dread.

| Mar 7, 2019

Weerasethakul's perpetual insistence on the stillness and purity of the pictorial and aural elements of his framing once again almost becomes the story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 4, 2018

Its succession of static, perfectly calm images establishes a spiritual mood that enables both the characters and their godly counterparts to exist within the same space. The result is a strange and beguiling meditation on identity.

| Nov 3, 2018

It's a funny film, it's a sly film, it's profound and poetic, brimming with mercurial wonder and vividness in strange and untrodden corners of consciousness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 5, 2018

Many of its relaxed (or even tranquil) scenes provide an opportunity to absorb Weerasethakul's impressive eye for things and landscapes.

| Aug 22, 2018

Cemetery of Splendor demands patience, but is truly worth the effort.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 21, 2018

A uniquely beautiful spiritual film that centers around magic, healing and visions.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 29, 2018

The echoes of Apichatpong's hospital-set "Syndromes and a Century" don't make this film look any more inspired.

| Feb 15, 2018

Cemetery of Splendour is the gentlest of war cries that rallies our personal consciousness to overcome the prescribed, unfeeling, unthinking doctrine.

| Sep 26, 2017

A film that shows the uneasy allegory of a country spoiled by the omnivorous military pressure on the defenseless civilian population. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 21, 2017

What other filmmaker could create a tissue of metaphor, almost musical, from the hum of rotary objects?

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 27, 2016

From the Thai arthouse director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, whose Uncle Boonmee won the Palme d'Or at Cannes a few years ago, comes another strange swooning dream, Cemetery of Splendour.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2016