An excellent lead performance by a child aside, this is too postcard picture-perfect and poorly-paced a film about the torrid experiences of surviving the Khmer Rouge regime to be considered essential viewing.
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An excellent lead performance by a child aside, this is too postcard picture-perfect and poorly-paced a film about the torrid experiences of surviving the Khmer Rouge regime to be considered essential viewing.
The treatment of Cambodians’ collective experience of the Khmer Rouge through the use of clay figurines may be fascinating, but the material is sometimes repetitive and inconsistently engaging.