The Missing Picture
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2013
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Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.
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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
95 min
Release date:
4 Nov 2013
Country:
BE, KH, FR
Languages:
French
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$76,933
Awards:
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 12 wins & 16 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
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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,
5 Jan 2015
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In narration that is poetic and historically astute, Panh layers his own memoir atop his nation's.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
24 Apr 2014
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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,
4 Apr 2014
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As haunting as it is haunted, "The Missing Picture" leaves viewers' heads rattling with ghosts.
– Michael O'Sullivan,
Washington Post,
3 Apr 2014
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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,
3 Apr 2014