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The Missing

Never Let Go Of The Truth

2014 · 7h 20m Crime, Drama, Mystery
Directed by Tom Shankland

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Exploring the emotional fallout of a child's abduction not only on the family but on the wider community, this gripping relationship thriller is told over two time frames and two countries.

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Fresh

Panh fulfills his debts to the dead not just by adding to the visual record of genocide, but also by creating a transcendent work of art.

Michael Sragow, Orange County Register
Fresh

In narration that is poetic and historically astute, Panh layers his own memoir atop his nation's.

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh

Many films have examined from many vantages the Khmer Rouge's nightmare reign, notably Roland Joffe's 1985 Oscar winner The Killing Fields.

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh

As haunting as it is haunted, "The Missing Picture" leaves viewers' heads rattling with ghosts.

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Fresh

A uniquely subjective account of the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s, "The Missing Picture" is the work of Rithy Panh, a Cambodian native who left his homeland when he was an adolescent.

John Hartl, Seattle Times

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