Tag: Cambodia

Meeting with Pol Pot

Posted by Clarence Tsui | May 16, 2024 | Cannes, Cannes 2024, Festivals, International Oscars 2025 |

Rithy Panh’s unnerving screen adaptation of U.S. war correspondent Elizabeth Becker’s real-life 1978 visit to Khmer Rouge-ruled Cambodia vaunts intense performances, a diverse visual palette and an ominous sound design.

Tenement

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Jan 31, 2024 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2024 |

The traumas of Cambodia’s past stretch their icy fingers into the present in Tenement, a deeply unsettling psychological horror set in a rundown Khmer-era housing block.