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The Look of Silence

2014

Joshua Oppenheimer

Documentary, Self: Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan ...

7.8

2,333

Documentary Through Oppenheimer's footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian Genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as de identities of the killers. The documentary focuses on the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who decides to break the suffocating spell of submission and terror by doing something unimaginable in a society where the murderers remain in power: he confronts the men who killed jis ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"The unapologetic directness of the filmmaking leaves you horrified, moved, angry and repelled all at once."	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang IndieWire	"[It] is an ululating lament, a drawn-out wail of grief that sounds almost like a song, albeit a harrowing one. This film may feel like the aftershock after the seismic event of its (...) precursor, but it’s an aftershock whose power is not diminished, merely transformed."	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"An stunning (...) piece that shifts its emphasis from the perpetrators of the atrocity to their victims, all the while maintaining its predecessor’s ornate moral complexities (...) and occasional, devastating jabs of humor."	POS
United Kingdom	David Hughes Empire	"As bleak, unflinching and utterly unmissable as its predecessor, while the number of people credited as 'Anonymous' in the end credits is as bone-chilling as what has gone before. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"Feels more like an extended DVD extra to Oppenheimer's genre-defying previous film than a stand-alone documentary."	NEG

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