Academy Awards, USA 2014
| Nominee Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Cambodia
|
Les Acacias (France)
Directed by Rithy Panh
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Strand Releasing)
The director recalls his childhood in Cambodia when it was taken over by the brutal Khmer Rouge communists. His family, and most of the rest of the population of Phnom Penh, were evacuated and sent to "re-education camps" which were essentially forced labor camps. In the name of communism, he was sent to the rice fields each day and lived in squalor. His parents, and millions of others, died. The story is told by a combination of newsreel and propaganda footage along with carved figures. Unfortunately, I found the latter distracting, since they were simply static figures set in various detailed dioramas.
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