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.
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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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In narration that is poetic and historically astute, Panh layers his own memoir atop his nation's.
Many films have examined from many vantages the Khmer Rouge's nightmare reign, notably Roland Joffe's 1985 Oscar winner The Killing Fields.
As haunting as it is haunted, "The Missing Picture" leaves viewers' heads rattling with ghosts.
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.
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