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The Missing Picture

L'image manquante (The Missing Picture)

2013

Rithy Panh

Documentary, Self: Randal Douc, Jean-Baptiste Phou

7.1

1,184

Documentary. War For many years, I have been looking for the missing picture: a photograph taken between 1975 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge when they ruled over Cambodia...On its own, of course, an image cannot prove mass murder, but it gives us cause for thought, prompts us to meditate, to record History. I searched for it vainly in the archives, in old papers, in the country villages of Cambodia. Today I know: this image must be missing. I was not ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Neil Young The Hollywood Reporter	"A sobering, ultimately numbing peek into the living hell of 1970s Cambodia"	NEU
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Powerful and mesmerising, this offers an fresh approach to a tough topic. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"This is a first-person account of astonishing suffering, yet the experience of watching 'The Missing Picture' is not punishing. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"The audacity of 'The Missing Picture' - a brilliant documentary about a child who held on to life in Cambodia's killing fields - is equaled only by its soulfulness."	POS
United Kingdom	Xan Brooks The Guardian	"So nakedly personal and so honeycombed with open-ended questions that it amounts to a bewitching form of self-therapy. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS

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