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Two decades after forging an unlikely alliance in Pol Pot's Cambodia, a French ethnologist and a former Khmer Rouge official meet again after the latter is arrested for crimes against humanity.
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2014 ‘Le temps des aveux’ Directed by Régis Wargnier
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A day later, I don't know how I feel about this film. I'm too tired to form sentences at the moment, so here it is in list form...
What I Liked:
• The decision to not use music to manipulate the audience's thoughts and feelings of the Khmer Rouge situation - thought that was rather clever because it gave the film a more authentic natural feel, well-suited to the forest environment that it was filmed in most of the movie.
• The natural acting by the main French actor.
• Learning about France's involvement with the Khmer Rouge conflict in Cambodia. I learned a lot, so watching the film in general was really interesting.What I Disliked:
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Indochina no me disgusto, esta tampoco. Es interesante la Camboya de Pol Pot , los Jemeres Rojos y el Maoísmo mas radical. Los guerra dialéctica entre el francés cautivo y el jefe de lo Jemeres es otra parte substanciosa con frases lapidarias, pero la cinta no se sale de su ruta, un survival con mucho drama familiar .que no acongoja lo suficiente ni se adentra en las atrocidades del genocidio.
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In 1971, the Khmer Rouge was in the process of taking over Cambodia by force and instituting what became the "killing fields." This film is the based-on-a-true story of François Bizot, a French ethnologist (beautifully portrayed by Raphäel Personnaz) who is captured by the rebels and imprisoned for several years as a CIA spy, until finally a Khmer soldier named Duch believes his innocence and he is released. However that is only the start of a long journey which ultimately culminates in the revelation that Bizot's savior was an accused torturer and executor of thousands. The film is both a horrifying prisoner story, and a fascinating political parable of good and evil which spans 30 years. Director Régis Wagoner has created an authentic, horrifying, personalized depiction of one of the bleakest eras of the 20th century.