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  • 2008
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2008
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 36 m

Summary Shot over the course of 23 years, Thavi narrates his own story as a child surviving the Vietnam war and then as a young man struggling to overcome the hardships of immigrant life, an experience shared with his mother in war. Breathtaking and compelling, renowned cinematographer Ellen Kuras’s film is a poetic, deeply personal film, a powe...

Directed By: Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath

Written By: Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath

  • 2008
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2008
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 36 m

The Betrayal - Nerakhoon

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Summary Shot over the course of 23 years, Thavi narrates his own story as a child surviving the Vietnam war and then as a young man struggling to overcome the hardships of immigrant life, an experience shared with his mother in war. Breathtaking and compelling, renowned cinematographer Ellen Kuras’s film is a poetic, deeply personal film, a powe...

Directed By: Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath

Written By: Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath

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A riveting works of humanism.
By Jonathan Curiel FULL REVIEW
88
Self-consciously poetic and shot within a luscious inch of its life, the film's also an engrossing heartbreaker: a family saga that spans continents, political administrations, and decades of travail to arrive at a harder, wiser place.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
80
More than anything, The Betrayal is a cinematic essay about family and loss and home, one that's ironic and elegiac in tone and requires some patience.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
75
A powerful account of how the American dream became a nightmare for one Laotian family.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
70
Exploring a Lao family's experience during and since the Vietnam War, the film chronicles the treacheries of geopolitics and the upheaval of exile.
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Though an admirable attempt to allow the characters to tell their own story in their own voices, docu may be a bit too freely associative, as it becomes difficult at times to identify individual characters... Picture's second half, which proceeds in a more linear fashion, is resolutely gripping.
By Scott Foundas FULL REVIEW
67
The past-and-present layering is a lot more resonant -- and less sketchy -- than the film's theme of ''betrayal,'' both familial and governmental.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW

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Production Company P.O.V., The American Documentary, isotopefilms
Release Date Nov 21, 2008
Duration 1 h 36 m
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Website http://www.thebetrayalmovie.com/
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 2 Nominations
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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