The Missing Picture (2013)
Director:Rithy Panh
Country: Cambodia
Runtime: 92 min
The Missing Picture (French: L'image manquante) is a 2013 Cambodian-French documentary film directed by Rithy Panh about the Khmer Rouge. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it won the top prize. It was also screened in the World Cinema section at the 2013 Cinemanila International Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize.
The film has been selected as the Cambodian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, and was nominated.
" My children, I look for as a lost picture. Or rather, it is she who calls me . Is it because I'm 50 ? " This past dating back as excessive wave, that's life of a young Cambodian broken 13 years , which in a few months , under the Khmer Rouge regime , see disappear most of his family and survives alongside daily death and horror in labor camps . But it is also the quiet happiness destroyed by genocide, " the world before , music , sweetness , family " , whose memory is no less dangerous for that was irretrievably lost . These images that burn in memory? mass murder , the family home in Phnom Penh? remain ever found in reality. Then the narrator filmmaker revives his way. " With land and water, with the dead , rice fields, with live hands , a man is doing. Just not much . Just want . His costume is white, his dark tie . I would hold it against me. This is my father ... "
Through the magic of cinema, purifies the comment, the talent of a sculptor who is born under the eye of the characters, sets and props clay camera, then carefully painted, Rithy Pahn manages to evoke with always contained a powerful and which for so many survivors, remains inexpressible emotion: the suffering experienced day after day, the pain of surviving, love for those lost. Counterpoint propaganda images filmed by the regime, its tiny clay dolls, animated amazingly humanity restore all the inhumanity of four years of Khmer Rouge terror.
Country: Cambodia
Runtime: 92 min
The Missing Picture (French: L'image manquante) is a 2013 Cambodian-French documentary film directed by Rithy Panh about the Khmer Rouge. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it won the top prize. It was also screened in the World Cinema section at the 2013 Cinemanila International Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize.
The film has been selected as the Cambodian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, and was nominated.
" My children, I look for as a lost picture. Or rather, it is she who calls me . Is it because I'm 50 ? " This past dating back as excessive wave, that's life of a young Cambodian broken 13 years , which in a few months , under the Khmer Rouge regime , see disappear most of his family and survives alongside daily death and horror in labor camps . But it is also the quiet happiness destroyed by genocide, " the world before , music , sweetness , family " , whose memory is no less dangerous for that was irretrievably lost . These images that burn in memory? mass murder , the family home in Phnom Penh? remain ever found in reality. Then the narrator filmmaker revives his way. " With land and water, with the dead , rice fields, with live hands , a man is doing. Just not much . Just want . His costume is white, his dark tie . I would hold it against me. This is my father ... "
Through the magic of cinema, purifies the comment, the talent of a sculptor who is born under the eye of the characters, sets and props clay camera, then carefully painted, Rithy Pahn manages to evoke with always contained a powerful and which for so many survivors, remains inexpressible emotion: the suffering experienced day after day, the pain of surviving, love for those lost. Counterpoint propaganda images filmed by the regime, its tiny clay dolls, animated amazingly humanity restore all the inhumanity of four years of Khmer Rouge terror.
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